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: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:42:12 -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 1246053488 15093 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2009 21:58:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:58:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 26 23:58:01 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 1MKJQl-0002eu-NE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:58:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52379 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKJQl-00079c-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:57:59 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a5g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.103.191.98 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1246034535 11351 127.0.0.1 (26 Jun 2009 16:42:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a5g2000pre.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:170347 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:51:45 -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:65568 Archived-At: 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 customization > > 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. Any way I can incorporate this in my _emacs? > > 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. I cannot change this, as I'm in a corporate network. Thanks Markus