Re: How to change default "insert file" path /tmp to home directory?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <avd31vFdl82U1@mid.individual.net>, gerlach <jack@aiai.de> 
wrote:

> Am 10.05.2013 23:02, schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon:
> > gerlach <jack@aiai.de> writes:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I googl'ed a lot and didn't find it: how can I change the default
> >> "insert path" (ctrl-x i) from /tmp to e.g.  /home/gerlach  ?
> >
> > M-: (setq default-directory "/home/gerlach/") RET
> >
> >
> 
> i state today that its any longer working! Default directory is /tmp 
> once again. At least in Why?
> 
> my /home/gerlach/.emacs
> (setq fill-column 50)
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
> (setq default-directory "/home/gerlach/")
> 
> 
> BTW: (setq fill-column 50)  is ignored. Even if I insert 20 instead of 
> 50. Why?

fill-column is a buffer-local variable. Use setq-default to set the 
default value for new buffers.

And as I mentioned in another reply, default-directory is also 
buffer-local. However, it doesn't help much to set its default value, 
because it's automatically changed to the directory containing the file 
you're editing. You can use setq-default, but that will only work for 
buffers that aren't editing files.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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