Re: Emacs 22.3 ignores setq default-directory

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 29.06.2009 um 23:54 schrieb Markus Heller:

> 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:/.


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).

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.

--
Greetings

  Pete

When in doubt, use brute force.
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