From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Markus Heller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 22.3 ignores setq default-directory Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <5cc316a8-1a47-4e0c-af2b-27675d5517f5@q3g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246338647 24859 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2009 05:10:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:10:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 30 07:10:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MLVc8-0000Ib-18 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:10:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60847 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MLVc7-0008WO-65 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:10:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.103.191.98 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246310142 25909 127.0.0.1 (29 Jun 2009 21:15:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=142.103.191.98; posting-account=8cRoGgoAAACgT8ioTzE3TRMb96jPw0IM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.33 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170437 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:00:10 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65655 Archived-At: On Jun 27, 2:27=A0am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Markus Heller > > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:42:12 -0700 (PDT) > > > On Jun 25, 11:57=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > From: Markus Heller > > > > Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:47:30 -0700 (PDT) > > > > > I just installed Emacs 22.3 under Win XP using the precompiled > > > > binary. =A0Everything works, my _emacs is read and all customizatio= n > > > > such as AuCTeX works fine. > > > > > the only thing that's being ignored is the line > > > > > (setq default-directory "h:") > > > > > which works fine in Emacs 22.1. > > > > Does it work if you start Emacs with the -Q switch, then load your > > > _emacs with "M-x load-file RET"? > > > Yes it does. =A0Any way I can incorporate this in my _emacs? > > Perhaps run it from one of the -hook variables provided by > startup.el. =A0It could be that this setting needs to be run later than > it is if simply put at top level of your _emacs file. > > > > > Any idea as to why and how I can define my home directory? > > > > If "H:\" is your home, then set the HOME environment variable to > > > something like "H:\". > > > H: is not my home directory, it's where all my data are stored. > > Well, you did say (above) "how can I define my home directory?" Yep, I know. That's why I clarified it in another post. Sorry for the confusion!