bug#15607: default-directory set to / when launch from Mac OS Dock

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

I've checked 24.3 and 10.7/10.8:

open Emacs.app --args -Q  => /
open Emacs.app                  => $HOME
From Dock                           => $HOME

So dock starting at / must be a local thing.  Check your .emacs and environment 
set by launchd.

The -Q behaviour may very well be NS-specific, but it isn't new.
I see no bug here, closing.

        Jan D.

15 okt 2013 kl. 05:42 skrev Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:

> Jan Djärv wrote:
> 
>>> It used to be the $HOME directory.
>>> 
>>> Is it changed intentionally recently?
>> 
>> If I don't give -Q, it prompts with $HOME. Must be a general change
>> w.r.t. -Q.
> 
> I haven't noticed such a change (it would be a weird thing to do IMO),
> I'd check what eg emacs 24.3 or an xterm does when opened from the Dock.
> (Maybe you have something in .emacs that changes PWD?)
> 
>>> I wonder how it works in other desktop environments.
> 
> AFAIK, It uses whatever working directory the launcher sets up,
> which I guess is HOME in 99+% of cases.