From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>
Cc: 24999@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24999: closed (Re: bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory)
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:07:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1cARSG-00017e-O8@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1cAC6y-00048U-SC@tucano.isti.cnr.it> (message from Francesco Potortì on Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:44:00 +0100)
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> and, while writing it, it struck me that "invocation-directory" should
> mean just that: the directory from which Emacs was invoked.
'invocation-directory' is the directory in which the Emacs executable
was found. It is NOT supposed to be the directory that was current
at that time. If you run Emacs with ~/bin/emacs, 'invocation-directory'
would be "~/bin/".
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-26 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 10:23 bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory Francesco Potortì
2016-11-24 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <handler.24999.D24999.148000823832450.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-11-24 17:45 ` bug#24999: closed (Re: bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory) Francesco Potortì
2016-11-24 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-24 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-24 18:08 ` Francesco Potortì
2016-11-24 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-25 8:44 ` Francesco Potortì
2016-11-25 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-26 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 1:07 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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