From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: Changing default starting directory
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:41:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k7hbiqqm.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.171.1042284495.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> writes:
> When I start up my Emacs (21.2 on Redhat 8) my startup directory in
> *scratch* is by default
>
> /home/chuck
>
> I want to change this to
>
> /mnt/win_d/docs
>
> And so I added the following to my .emacs file:
>
> '(default-directory "/mnt/win_d/docs")
>
> This does not do the trick.
Put
(cd "/mnt/win_d/docs")
in your .emacs instead.
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2003-01-11 16:31 ` Changing default starting directory Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-12 8:54 ` Charles Muller
2003-01-11 16:41 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2003-01-11 11:25 Charles Muller
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