Re: Persisting the current working directory in an org-babel session

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Adam Sneller <adam@earth2adam.com> writes:

> For some reason, I am unable to make changes to my working directory persist, from one emacs-lisp SRC block to the next.
>
> For example, consider the following:
>
> 	* Literate programming in a single session
> 	:PROPERTIES:
> 	:header-args: :var DIR="/Users/adam/Desktop/test"
> 	:END:
>
> 	#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :session *elisp*
> 	(cd DIR)
> 	#+END_SRC
>
> 	#+RESULTS:
> 	: /Users/adam/Desktop/test/
>
>
> 	#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :session *elisp*
> 	(cd ".")
> 	#+END_SRC
>
> 	#+RESULTS:
> 	: /Users/adam/org/

Confirmed.

This is because `org-babel-execute-src-block' let-binds
`default-directory'. So, your changes to it are only affecting lexical
scope.

Fixes welcome!

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