Re: how to not change the working directory when opening a file

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>:
> (add-hook 'post-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq default-directory 
> emacs-startup-directory)))

If it works go with it.  It's also a more focussed solution than:

  (cd (getenv "PWD"))

in that it only applies to post-mode, although my 'getenv' solution is
perhaps more flexible in that Emacs' default directory at startup will
always be the directory you launched Emacs from, rather than the value
of emacs-startup-directory.

Just for your information, you shouldn't really quote lambda functions,
i.e., you should remove the single quote before (lambda ...).

Quoting lambda functions happens to work in Emacs Lisp but won't work in
other Lisp dialects, so it's not a good habit to get into.

Sebastian