From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Quesseveur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: apply start-process fails because of invalid current directory Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:05:17 +0200 Organization: Les Enchantements de Miraldra Message-ID: <86r4eeq3qq.fsf@free.fr> References: <86zjt3p3x6.fsf@free.fr> Reply-To: pascal.quesseveur@free.fr NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375276213 24251 80.91.229.3 (31 Jul 2013 13:10:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:10:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 31 15:10:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V4WAR-0002Nv-UK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:10:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35418 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4WAR-0003KZ-9T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:10:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.franciliens.net!news.muarf.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!212.27.60.64.MISMATCH!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp1-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-Attribution: PQsr Cancel-Lock: sha1:cwnWw5Cm79+Y9L3jSj4Mm6GpJZY= Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 2013 15:05:19 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.241.156.15 Original-X-Trace: 1375275919 news-4.free.fr 2101 78.241.156.15:63042 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200322 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92589 Archived-At: I have looked in the code and the message is sent after a call to Ffile_acessible_directory_p. The problem seems coming from the fact there is no file associated with the current-buffer (it is a gnus article). When the directory is unreachable the code says it uses a sensible default which is ~/. For some reason it is not working for me in some situations. -- Pascal Quesseveur pascal.quesseveur@free.fr