Re: how to not change the working directory when opening a file

[Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>]

>>>>> "Francis" == Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

    Francis> Hello list, I'd like Emacs to not changing the working
    Francis> directory when opening a file.

    Francis> For example when doing:

    Francis> $ pwd /home/fmoreau/tmp $ emacs /tmp/foo.txt

    Francis> I'd like the current working directory to be
    Francis> "/home/fmoreau/tmp" when editing "/tmp/foo.txt" in emacs.

    Francis> This is useful when composing an email.  I sometime need
    Francis> to include the output of a shell command but this shell
    Francis> command must be executed in the directory where emacs was
    Francis> launched.

    Francis> Does anybody can give me a hint to do that ?

I can't think of an easy way.  If it were me, I'd just prepend a "cd"
command to the shell command, like this:

        C-u M-! cd ~/yow ; ls RET

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