From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24999: closed (Re: bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:53:41 +0200 Message-ID: <837f7s69y2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83bmx46bcf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480010115 18578 195.159.176.226 (24 Nov 2016 17:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 24999@debbugs.gnu.org To: Francesco =?UTF-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 24 18:55:11 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yEo-0003uN-9x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:55:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yEr-00053m-Ng for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yEj-00051S-36 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yEg-0001MG-0f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:53516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yEf-0001M5-TK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yEf-0000kG-Kv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:55:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:55:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24999 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 24999-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24999.14800100642814 (code B ref 24999); Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24999) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Nov 2016 17:54:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40682 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yE4-0000jK-54 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:54:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39745) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yE2-0000j7-BG for 24999@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:54:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yDw-0000cE-IB for 24999@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:54:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48624) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yDp-0000Vt-Mp; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4225 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c9yDm-0000dq-V6; Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:54:09 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Francesco =?UTF-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= on Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:45:22 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:126056 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:45:22 +0100 > From: Francesco Potortì > > I had written: > > >The only way I found for obtaining the directory from which > >Emacs was invoked is to get the default-directory of the *scratch* > >buffer. > > Can this be considered as a bug? Or at least a wishlist? Having a > variable that contains the invocation directory? IMO it's not meaningful in Emacs to ask which directory was the "current" when Emacs started. That's because Emacs pretends the current directory is different for every buffer.