Re: How to change default "insert file" path /tmp to home directory?

[gerlach]

Am 13.05.2013 23:08, schrieb gerlach:
> Am 10.05.2013 23:02, schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon:
> > gerlach <jack@aiai.de> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I googl'ed a lot and didn't find it: how can I change the default
> > > "insert path" (ctrl-x i) from /tmp to e.g.  /home/gerlach  ?
> >
> > M-: (setq default-directory "/home/gerlach/") RET
>
> i state today that its any longer working! Default directory is /tmp
> once again. Why?
>
> my /home/gerlach/.emacs
> (setq fill-column 50)
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
> (setq default-directory "/home/gerlach/")
>
>
> BTW: (setq fill-column 50)  is ignored. Even if I insert 20 instead of
> 50. Why?
>
> The .emacs file is found and read, the proof: when I produce a error like
> (setq asdasdfasdfasdf fill-column 50)  the error is claimed by emacs at
> start.
>
> (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)  is also
> ignored. I have to execute the command explicitely.
now it works ... I don't know what changed ... !?!
> Then I want to enable php highlightning with my old emacs (Suse 11.1,
> don't know the version) this worked fine:
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>       (append
>       '( (".*\.php$" .html-mode) (".*\.php$" .html-mode)
>        )
>        auto-mode-alist))
works now in my ubuntu 12.04. aptitude install php-elisp installed the 
php plugin and that code in .emacs

(global-font-lock-mode 1)
(require 'php-mode)
(setq auto-mode-alist
  (append '(("\.php$" . php-mode)
            ("\.module$" . php-mode))
              auto-mode-alist))



> In my actual emacs 23.3.1  nothing works ... even not default-directory
> "/home/gerlach/" ... incredible ... WHY?

Any ideas?

> I use emacs in text mode (-nw) only.
>
> tia
> Eckard