Re: find-directory-p always returns nil in locate-mode on windows xp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 19:25:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Peter Breton <address@hidden>
> 
> I just tested removing the default-directory line and
> locate.el seems to work fine. I believe that it uses
> dired-move-to-filename-regexp to determine the file
> name, so default-directory would be ignored in any
> case, and as best I can recall, it was only set to get
> dired-mode to work properly.

Does any of the commands in the *Locate* buffer use the directory
whose name is written at the beginning of the (Dired-like) buffer?  If
so, those commands should be tested after you change
default-directory's value.