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From: Pascal Quesseveur <pascal.quesseveur@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: apply start-process fails because of invalid current directory
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 08:22:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k3k6rkv8.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2253.1375306429.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

>"SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  SM> Maybe you looked in a different buffer: each buffer has its own notion
  SM> of default-directory.

  SM> It could, but that would be risky, if you do (start-process "rm -rf
  SM> foo") and Emacs decides "oh I can't find the current directory, let's
  SM> run this from $HOME instead".
  SM> So you have to do it by hand, explicitly.

Thank you for all these explanations.


-- 
Pascal Quesseveur
pascal.quesseveur@free.fr


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-01  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-31  7:46 apply start-process fails because of invalid current directory Pascal Quesseveur
2013-07-31 10:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-31 12:37   ` Pascal Quesseveur
2013-07-31 14:10     ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-31 13:05 ` Pascal Quesseveur
2013-07-31 14:42   ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-31 15:18     ` Pascal Quesseveur
2013-07-31 15:21       ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-31 14:47 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <mailman.2237.1375282221.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-31 15:25   ` Pascal Quesseveur
2013-07-31 18:19     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2253.1375306429.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-01  6:22       ` Pascal Quesseveur [this message]

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