RE: setting the default directory on Windows startup

["Bingham, Jay" <Jay.Bingham@hp.com>]

One way to do this is to open the properties for each shortcut that you have for starting emacs and put c:\ in the start in: field.  There may be other ways but when I found this one I quit looking.

By the way there is a mail list just for emacs windows http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows

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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Alan Barton [mailto:abarton@coas.oregonstate.edu] 
Sent:	Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:11 PM
To:	help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject:	setting the default directory on Windows startup

I'm a new user of emacs on Windows, although I have some experience on Linux
OS versions.  When I open an emacs session and select 'File' -> 'Open file'
, my directory tree starts looking in 'c:\emacs\bin\' when I would prefer
that it start looking in my 'c:\home' directory.

I found the variable 'insert-default-directory', but this just seems to be a
toggle switch, and does not allow me to input the name of a new default
directory.  I'm aware that I can simply 'cd' in to my working directory each
time I open an emacs session, but I'd like my sessions to automatically 'cd'
to my working directory on startup.  How do I go about doing this?

Thanks for your assistance.
                                 -Alan Barton
                                  abarton@coas.oregonstate.edu



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