Re: call-process in scratch buffer with non-existent default-directory

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Roland" == Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> Signaling: (file-error "Setting current directory" "no such file or 
> directory" "/nfs/home/winkler/scratch/")
>   call-process("lynx" nil t nil "-dump" "http://dict.leo.org/?search=We";)

Under Unix, every process has a "current directory".  When Emacs starts
a new process, it uses `default-directory' as the current directory for
that process.  For that reason `default-directory' should always have
a meaningful value.


        Stefan