Re: current directory

[Colin S. Miller]

vb wrote:
> On Saturday 21 October 2006 11:38, don provan wrote:
>
> no, it would not be insane at all. All other editors but emacs I am used to 
> maintain a notion of "current directory" and allow the user to change this 
> current directory explicitly. The fact that emacs doesn't even have an 
> infrastructure for that just shows how off mark its approach is.

I find it interesting to note that in MS VC 6,
File/Open defaulted to the last directory you open a file from,
and MS VC .NET now defaults to the directory of the current file.

> As I said, look around, check out Crisp for instance, you would be surprised: 
> no long keystrokes, much wider use of keys (say astersk on the numeric keypad 
> and on the main keyboard are naturally assigned to different key codes _ 
> still have to find the way to achieve this with emacs, and I've tried!). You 
> can write macros in object oriented c-like language, not in this weird lisp 
> which is a remnant of computing stone age (I know, I know that it is still 
> used to teach students).

(global-set-key 'kp-multiply 'switch-to-buffer)

C-h k *  indicates the internal name for keystrokes


BTW,
in answer to your original question,
you could make the call-progress run
"cd  /a/b/c && ./myScript.sh"

It is possible for emacs to record its starting directory,
and add the cd for you.


HTH,
Colin S. Miller
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