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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to change default "insert file" path /tmp to home directory?
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 20:50:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-E0796D.20500210052013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: av53a9Fkok3U1@mid.individual.net

In article <av53a9Fkok3U1@mid.individual.net>, gerlach <jack@aiai.de> 
wrote:

> 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  ?

The default is whatever directory the current buffer was loaded from. So 
it's only /tmp if you happen to be editing something from /tmp.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-11  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-10 20:23 How to change default "insert file" path /tmp to home directory? gerlach
2013-05-10 20:48 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-10 21:02 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-05-10 21:14   ` gerlach
2013-05-13 21:08   ` gerlach
2013-05-13 21:31     ` gerlach
2013-05-13 21:40     ` Peter Dyballa
2013-05-13 21:48     ` Barry Margolin
2013-05-11  0:50 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2013-05-14  9:52   ` gerlach
2013-05-14 13:44     ` Suvayu Ali

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