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X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:126009 Archived-At: The elisp manual says: -- Variable: invocation-directory This variable holds the directory from which the Emacs executable was invoked, or perhaps `nil' if that directory cannot be determined. However, the doc string says: invocation-directory is a variable defined in `C source code'. Its value is "/usr/bin/" Documentation: The directory in which the Emacs executable was found, to run it. The value is nil if that directory's name is not known. The second description is the correct one, and the elisp manual is wrong. The only way I found for obtaining the directory from which Emacs was invoked is to get the default-directory of the *scratch* buffer.