Re: Emacs 22.3 ignores setq default-directory

[Markus Heller]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Peter Dyballa<Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:
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> Am 29.06.2009 um 23:54 schrieb Markus Heller:
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>> I've just reduced my _emacs to only one line:
>>
>> (setq default-directory "h:/")
>>
>> so including the slash at the end.  I guess I do not set/read CDPATH,
>> and yet C-x C-f doesn;t bring me to h:/.
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>
> OK, what's left, is that this variable is buffer-local. There exists a
> global value (you've set it), and any buffer you create after your init file
> has been read can have a default-directory value derived from HOME or the
> working directory from which GNU Emacs launched. And this local value
> overrides the global one (therefore it's possible that in Bavaria you find
> so many folks that can't speak German, only Bavarian).

Being from Munich, this is an excellent explanation :)

This must be a difference between 22.1 and 22.3 then ...

> My recommendation: create a batch file which first changes working directory
> to H:\ and then launch the real GNU Emacs executable from within this batch
> file and working directory! Then it's very likely that the buffers with have
> set H:\ as default-directory.

Done, and works.

Thanks for your help!

Cheers
Markus

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