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From: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to not change the working directory when opening a file
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:16:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prw3t67y.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38b2ab8a0801141313i3489dab8h3c1535bebb0de53c@mail.gmail.com

Quoth "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>:
> $ pwd
> /home/fmoreau/tmp
> $ emacs /tmp/foo.txt
>
> I'd like the current working directory to be "/home/fmoreau/tmp"
> when editing "/tmp/foo.txt" in emacs.

Perhaps putting this at the end of your ~/.emacs:

(cd (getenv "PWD"))

I haven't tested this, but it might do it.

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-15 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-14 21:13 How to not change the working directory when opening a file Francis Moreau
2008-01-15 16:16 ` Sebastian Tennant [this message]
2008-01-16  2:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-16  6:35   ` Francis Moreau
     [not found] <mailman.6126.1200343901.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-15  8:02 ` how " Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-01-15  9:29   ` Francis Moreau
2008-01-15 15:11     ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-01-15 15:25       ` Francis Moreau
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-14 15:15 Francis Moreau
2008-01-14 23:17 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-01-15  0:21   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-15  9:27     ` Francis Moreau
2008-01-15 15:13       ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-01-15 15:53         ` Francis Moreau
2008-01-15 16:25           ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-01-15 17:16             ` Francis Moreau

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