From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to not change the working directory when opening a file Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87lk6rt5ri.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> References: <38b2ab8a0801140715h6a920332t3598c7c10b1f4d2e@mail.gmail.com> <87hchguhe0.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <478BFC8C.3020800@gmail.com> <38b2ab8a0801150127x27021810s542c6a921c495a7f@mail.gmail.com> <87ejcjt945.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> <38b2ab8a0801150753o3ef1bb59sf50cb2ab9ddc520d@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200414389 29838 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2008 16:26:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:26:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 15 17:26:52 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 1JEocl-0004Bl-GP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:26:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEocM-0003YT-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:26:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEoc5-0003WM-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:26:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEoc3-0003Se-Qq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:26:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEoc3-0003ST-KG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:26:07 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] 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 1JEoc3-0003LZ-6d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:26:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JEoby-0002Op-Up for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:26:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pbhPmTlrEOXfPn2yguV1Vod8U8w= 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:50736 Archived-At: Quoth "Francis Moreau" : > (add-hook 'post-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq default-directory emacs-startup-directory))) If it works go with it. It's also a more focussed solution than: (cd (getenv "PWD")) in that it only applies to post-mode, although my 'getenv' solution is perhaps more flexible in that Emacs' default directory at startup will always be the directory you launched Emacs from, rather than the value of emacs-startup-directory. Just for your information, you shouldn't really quote lambda functions, i.e., you should remove the single quote before (lambda ...). Quoting lambda functions happens to work in Emacs Lisp but won't work in other Lisp dialects, so it's not a good habit to get into. Sebastian