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Re: how to not change the working directory when opening a file


From: Francis Moreau
Subject: Re: how to not change the working directory when opening a file
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:53:48 +0100

On Jan 15, 2008 4:13 PM, Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> wrote:
> I imagine you could simply put this in your .emacs:
>
>         (setq emacs-startup-directory default-directory)
>
> Then your hook could refer to emacs-startup-directory.
>

Yes.

I added this to my .emacs:

(add-hook 'post-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq default-directory
emacs-startup-directory)))

and it does the right thing now although I'm really not sure about the
syntax I used.

Thanks
-- 
Francis




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