From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Markus Heller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 22.3 ignores setq default-directory Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4d57260f-863f-45d4-8802-07e926894316@n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com> References: <5cc316a8-1a47-4e0c-af2b-27675d5517f5@q3g2000pra.googlegroups.com> <3b31caf90906261504r77be9eegb8a3c73fc2d87ab4@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246338724 25200 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2009 05:12:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:12:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 30 07:11:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MLVdM-0000eJ-Rt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:11:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MLVdM-0000Zx-7b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:11:56 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.103.191.98 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246310529 27066 127.0.0.1 (29 Jun 2009 21:22:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n30g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=142.103.191.98; posting-account=8cRoGgoAAACgT8ioTzE3TRMb96jPw0IM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.33 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170438 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:00:10 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65656 Archived-At: On Jun 27, 1:18=A0am, TomSW wrote: > On Jun 27, 12:21=A0am, Markus Heller wrote: > > > > > PS: =A0Content of *messages* after replacing (setq default-directory > > "h:") with (cd "h:") > [...] > > error: No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable > > That's the giveaway. (cd "h:/") will work, as will (setq default- > directory "h:/") > > There are also various ways to make it easier to get to the files you > want, for example, speedbar-mode, savehist-mode, ido-mode (my > favourite). You could also open various directories on startup, or use > desktop-save-mode to save Emacs' state between sessions. > > Regards, > Tom SW. Whew, Tom, thanks for the reply, that's a lot of info to digest. Will play around with these modes ... Thanks Markus