From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Charles philip Chan" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing the default directory in which emacs save the files Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:12:05 -0400 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: <87lk018one.fsf@MagnumOpus.Mercurius> References: <74c0c290807160928r38aa9bd9y501756b021ee09c5@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216246762 1140 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2008 22:19:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:19:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 17 00:20:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJFM0-0005gL-I8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:20:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40620 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJFL8-0002FH-0i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJFKQ-00023F-Fy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:18:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJFKO-00021m-0K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:18:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55839 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJFKN-00021Z-Mx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42943 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJFGU-00017n-MG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:14:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KJFGO-0007gJ-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:14:20 +0000 Original-Received: from bas2-toronto63-1088792724.dsl.bell.ca ([64.229.168.148]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:14:20 +0000 Original-Received: from cpchan by bas2-toronto63-1088792724.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:14:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas2-toronto63-1088792724.dsl.bell.ca X-Face: G; Z,`sm>)4t4LB/GUrgH$W`!AmfHMj,LG)Z}X0ax@s9:0>0)B&@vcm{v-le)wng)?|o]D\Z}0:6X User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q4S/Ox9tQtTjCBhubgdsIR8uYcU= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55659 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain "Carlos Gomes" writes: > That is, is there a way to "tell" emacs to save a file in a directory > other than, for instance, C:\Programs\emacs\bin (the default) in > windows, by using the command C-x C-s (save-buffer)? Wrong. The intial directory is actually ditermined by the "current directory" that emacs is started from. In Windows you should be able to change this by changing "Start in" in "Properties" of the emacs icon. Charles --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIfnJB3epPyyKbwPYRAjxOAJ480VopdwE5zV2zfSZrOKeniL7Y5gCfUlkp 16nPb7FCmWRE9nga677LEnY= =21TT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--