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Re: changing directories


From: Christian Odenthal
Subject: Re: changing directories
Date: 13 Mar 2003 22:26:17 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Hamster/2.0.0.0

"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca._nospam> writes:

> If I want to change my current directory in emacs so that all future
> file-find commands are relative to a new location, how would I do
> that?

(setq default-directory "~/directory") works for me. Nonetheless this
default can an will be changed by some applications. E.g., when trying
to load my .emacs from within gnus the default directory was "~/news".

HTH

Christian


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