From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:45:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h9ypiqmm.fsf@xvii.vinc17.org> <8k61f398u4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141029012802.GS4400@xvii.vinc17.org> <83y4rz1qmj.fsf@gnu.org> <20141029080939.GT4400@xvii.vinc17.org> <83r3xr0x4u.fsf@gnu.org> <20141029153959.GM5545@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr> <83zj45qs5a.fsf@gnu.org> <83mw04raei.fsf@gnu.org> <83eglgqbxp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1434239187 31757 80.91.229.3 (13 Jun 2015 23:46:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: vincent@vinc17.net, 18851@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 14 01:46:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v7p-0005k8-Tz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jun 2015 01:46:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57261 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v7p-0004ML-3c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:46:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32955) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v7l-0004Kp-Fs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:46:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v7j-00052u-3f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38597) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v7j-00052q-0w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v7i-0005Vr-ON for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:46:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18851 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18851-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18851.143423912121127 (code B ref 18851); Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18851) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Jun 2015 23:45:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53055 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v72-0005Uf-DR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:45:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47485) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v6z-0005UM-T6 for 18851@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:45:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v6t-0004OS-O8 for 18851@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50335) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v6o-0004JU-Fc; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z3v6k-0000b7-9Q; Sat, 13 Jun 2015 19:45:02 -0400 X-Spook: propaganda Bellcore Steve Case National preparedness X-Ran: GR`):!T?]+gd]Rv:c`n3Q8#?!\qeV}VUTsN}y/g9T6$q~^iZ~:y~'=PxsHj[wOR/1%Nx;~ X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <83eglgqbxp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:56:02 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:103921 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I think you should install this. After all, how frequent is this > scenario that we should bother about session-management in that case? Agreed & installed. Starting Emacs with PWD deleted now works. The basics (M-x cd, find-file) work, but I'm sure there are many places that do not expect default-directory to be nil. I doubt it is worth correcting them all.