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Subject: Re: apply start-process fails because of invalid current directory
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>"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.


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