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Subject: Re: emacsW32 find-file does not show the current buffer file path?
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On Jun 12, 8:53=A0am, John A Pershing Jr <persh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes:
> > on unixes, when you do find-file, the default path is the path of the
> > current buffer's file.
>
> > On emacsW32 (Windows), the default path (sometimes) is the last
> > directory opened.
>
> I don't get this mis-behavior. =A0My emacs 22.3 works as expected in this
> respect.

thanks guys. I think i got confused.

 Xah