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 18:16:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87prw3t67y.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> References: <38b2ab8a0801141313i3489dab8h3c1535bebb0de53c@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 1200413831 27676 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2008 16:17:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:17:11 +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 17:17:33 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 1JEoTj-0000CU-By for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:17:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEoTK-0005mp-Ql for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:17:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEoSY-0005Rq-0C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:16:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JEoSW-0005Qk-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:16:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JEoSW-0005QX-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:16:16 -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 1JEoSV-0001ky-Me for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JEoSN-0001k7-A5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:16:07 +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 16:16:07 +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 16:16:07 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 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:pa2Gslx85B3lDmo1+hgDKE4Hqq4= 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:50735 Archived-At: Quoth "Francis Moreau" : > $ 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