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From: Niels Felsted Thorsen <nift@maclisp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: set a "default" directory in a function when asking for a file
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:39:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abbzssbh.fsf@tsuga.lan> (raw)

Hi

I have a function like this:

(defun testfun (file)
  (interactive "fFile: ")
  (message file))

But it will ask for the file based on, as I understand it, the value
of "default-directory" which is buffer-local.

Is there a way to specify default-directory just for this function? So
it will always start with fx:

File: ~/foo/bar/

when asking for the file.







             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-16 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-16 13:39 Niels Felsted Thorsen [this message]
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2008-11-16 15:47 ` set a "default" directory in a function when asking for a file Niels Giesen
2008-11-16 18:06   ` Niels Felsted Thorsen

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