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Xah Lee <xahlee@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.  My emacs 22.3 works as expected in this
respect.

  -jp