emacsW32 find-file does not show the current buffer file path?

emacsW32 find-file does not show the current buffer file path?

[Xah Lee]

on unixes, when you do find-file, the default path is the path of the
current buffer's file.

On emacsW32 (Windows), the default path (sometimes) is the last
directory opened.

Is this intentional? How can i set it to the normal emacs behavior?

Thanks.

GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6001) of 2009-05-28 on
LENNART-69DE564 (patched)

  Xah
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Re: emacsW32 find-file does not show the current buffer file path?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Xah Lee<xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> on unixes, when you do find-file, the default path is the path of the
> current buffer's file.
>
> On emacsW32 (Windows), the default path (sometimes) is the last
> directory opened.

Please give me an example. I have not seen this.

Re: emacsW32 find-file does not show the current buffer file path?

[John A Pershing Jr]

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> on unixes, when you do find-file, the default path is the path of the
> current buffer's file.
>
> On emacsW32 (Windows), the default path (sometimes) is the last
> directory opened.

I don't get this mis-behavior.  My emacs 22.3 works as expected in this
respect.

  -jp

Re: emacsW32 find-file does not show the current buffer file path?

[Xah Lee]

On Jun 12, 8:53 am, John A Pershing Jr <persh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes:
> > on unixes, when you do find-file, the default path is the path of the
> > current buffer's file.
>
> > On emacsW32 (Windows), the default path (sometimes) is the last
> > directory opened.
>
> I don't get this mis-behavior.  My emacs 22.3 works as expected in this
> respect.

thanks guys. I think i got confused.

 Xah

Re: emacsW32 find-file does not show the current buffer file path?

[Will Willis]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Xah Lee<xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 12, 8:53 am, John A Pershing Jr <persh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > on unixes, when you do find-file, the default path is the path of the
>> > current buffer's file.
>>
>> > On emacsW32 (Windows), the default path (sometimes) is the last
>> > directory opened.
>>
>> I don't get this mis-behavior.  My emacs 22.3 works as expected in this
>> respect.
>
> thanks guys. I think i got confused.
>
>  Xah
>

This is how emacsW32 works for me. If my current buffer is a file
located in C:/scripts/foo.pl, then when I C-x C-f the default
directory will be C:/scripts/.

If *Scratch* is my active buffer and I C-x C-f, then .../Emacs32/emacs/bin/

Is this _not_ how it's supposed to work?

Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)