From: Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com>
To: Rudolf Schlatte <rudi@constantly.at>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PWD is not seen by my emacs installation
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 13:21:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFDHx1L4TVAW6YVtUU9qb3=oRJQM_vOQigxakUeM2NmEs+UoNg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m15y5opyhe.fsf@constantly.at>
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 10:38 PM Rudolf Schlatte <rudi@constantly.at> wrote:
> Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> writes:
> >> How did you invoke emacs? If you start it from some graphical MacOS
> >> environment, may PWD _is_ undefined (I know nothing about MacOS)? Did
> you
> >> cd into
> >> /Users/mahan/src/PPP/ppp-master/pppd in a shell and start emacs from
> >> the command line from there?
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks! That was a good suggestion. I was using the Mac OS X 'open'
> > command which is probably, as you suggested, not picking up the correct
> > environment, though oddly it is picking up the PATH correctly.
>
> In that case, you can write "open -a Emacs.app /path/to/somefile.txt"
> and it will be opened by Emacs as expected.
>
> Note that in Emacs, each buffer has its own "current directory", so
> e.g. starting dired when in the "somefile.txt" buffer will display the
> contents of "/path/to".
>
>
Yes, that is what occurs, but my issue is the need to give the full path
(or even a relative path off of '~'). I just want to edit the file in the
local directory. I do not want to have to say "open -a Emacs.app
$PWD/file.txt" just to open a local file.
I also tried using the --env option to the open command but it does not
seem to work.
Invoking it directly works correctly.
Thanks,
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-09 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-08 1:58 PWD is not seen by my emacs installation Patrick Mahan
2023-08-08 12:44 ` tpeplt
[not found] ` <CAFDHx1Jk=jtHhLdThFUeFpfa=yGTXoKYuu0bADYAN-j-7FjSHw@mail.gmail.com>
2023-08-09 0:59 ` tpeplt
2023-08-08 19:07 ` stefan-husmann
2023-08-08 21:21 ` Patrick Mahan
2023-08-09 5:37 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2023-08-09 20:21 ` Patrick Mahan [this message]
2023-08-22 1:14 ` David Masterson
2023-08-22 4:24 ` Patrick Mahan
2023-08-30 22:29 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2023-08-30 23:43 ` Patrick Mahan
2023-09-03 15:27 ` Rudolf Schlatte
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