From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: TomSW Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 22.3 ignores setq default-directory Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:03:05 -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 1245966049 18939 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2009 21:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 25 23:40:43 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 1MJwgU-0005DF-2h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJwgT-0001WR-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j19g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.193.193.55 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245963786 16883 127.0.0.1 (25 Jun 2009 21:03:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j19g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.193.193.55; posting-account=gXCEPAoAAACaHNwa63AHlGuSCIcCahgr User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060308 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.11, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170305 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:65525 Archived-At: On Jun 25, 8:47=A0pm, Markus Heller wrote: > Hello, > > 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:") How do you know it's being ignored? What's happening that you don't expect? regards, Tom SW