From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs file Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:03:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83bpmdj01o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <742c8595-7cbb-4bd2-8426-2bfae586d437@12g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <82skfqff72.fsf@alum.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250564767 16597 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2009 03:06:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:06:07 +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 Aug 18 05:06:00 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 1MdF1M-0007dm-7u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:06:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57344 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MdF1L-0001ML-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:05:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MdF0z-0001MD-HU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:05:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MdF0x-0001Ly-Mg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:05:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47441 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MdF0x-0001Lv-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:62239 helo=mtaout3.012.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MdF0w-0000y5-V2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KOJ00F00XKG4X00@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:05:33 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.100.152]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KOJ00ATQXX8QXA0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:05:33 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <82skfqff72.fsf@alum.mit.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:67238 Archived-At: > From: John A Pershing Jr > Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:49:53 -0400 > > However, I believe the normal behavior of Emacs when it starts up is to > change to (what it believes to be) your home directory. No, that's not true. Emacs starts up in the directory where it was invoked. On Windows, if you start it by clicking an icon, the icon's properties determine where it starts.