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: Emacs 22.3 ignores setq default-directory Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5cc316a8-1a47-4e0c-af2b-27675d5517f5@q3g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245963505 11250 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2009 20:58:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:58:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 25 22:58:18 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 1MJw0V-0007i5-4i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:57:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33847 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJw0U-00015O-Dq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:57:18 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!q3g2000pra.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 1245955650 22773 127.0.0.1 (25 Jun 2009 18:47:30 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:47:30 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q3g2000pra.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:170298 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:56:02 -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:65521 Archived-At: Hello, I just installed Emacs 22.3 under Win XP using the precompiled binary. Everything works, my _emacs is read and all customization such as AuCTeX works fine. the only thing that's being ignored is the line (setq default-directory "h:") which works fine in Emacs 22.1. Any idea as to why and how I can define my home directory? Thanks and Cheers Markus PS: Here's the message buffer after staring emacs: ("C:\\Program Files\\emacs-22.3\\bin\\emacs.exe") Loading encoded-kb...done Loading c:/Program Files/emacs-22.3/site-lisp/tex-site.el (source)...done Loading easy-mmode...done Loading paren...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.