bug#15776: On Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Cocoa Emacs starts in the root directory instead of the home directory

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

This is fixed in the trunk.

        Jan D.

1 nov 2013 kl. 07:04 skrev Fazal Majid <majid@apsalar.com>:

> I have a build of GNU Emacs for the Mac. On 10.8 Mountain Lion, launching the 
> app works normally - the working directory is my home directory. On 10.9 
> Mavericks. when launched from the Dock or Finder, the default directory is 
> the root directory instead of my home directory. If launched from the 
> command-line, the correct behavior holds.
> 
> It looks like there is custom code in src/emacs.c #ifdef-ed for HAVE_NS and 
> NS_IMPL_COCOA that checks to see if the first or second command-line argument 
> starts with “-psn”, and if so, perform a chdir(getenv(“HOME”)).
> 
> It seems like the behavior changes in Mavericks, and apps no longer get the 
> -psn command-line argument. Apps are always launched with a cwd of /, even in 
> Mountain Lion, but now Emacs is not taking corrective action.
> 
> The solution is probably to do a version check of OS X and if 10.9 or above, 
> do the chdir anyway.
> 
> Here is the patch I am using, which is cruder, as it does not check for OS X 
> version:
> 
> --- emacs-24.3/src/emacs.c.dist       2013-10-31 22:36:23.000000000 -0700
> +++ emacs-24.3/src/emacs.c    2013-10-31 23:00:45.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1173,6 +1173,9 @@
>               chdir (getenv ("HOME"));
>             }
>         }
> +      /* On Mavericks, there is no -psn command-line argument so do this 
> anyway,
> +         otherwise the CWD would be the root directory */
> +      chdir (getenv ("HOME"));
> #endif  /* COCOA */
>     }
> #endif /* HAVE_NS */
> 
> 
> — Fazal Majid
> 
> In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.00)
> of 2013-10-31 on undr.majid.org
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1265
> Configured using:
> `configure '--prefix' '/usr/local' '--with-ns' '--with-gif=no'
> '--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib'
> '--with-xpm' 'CC=clang''
> 
> Important settings:
>  locale-coding-system: nil
>  default enable-multibyte-characters: t
> 
> Major mode: Fundamental
> 
> Minor modes in effect:
>  tooltip-mode: t
>  mouse-wheel-mode: t
>  menu-bar-mode: t
>  file-name-shadow-mode: t
>  global-font-lock-mode: t
>  blink-cursor-mode: t
>  auto-composition-mode: t
>  auto-encryption-mode: t
>  auto-compression-mode: t
>  buffer-read-only: t
>  line-number-mode: t
>  transient-mark-mode: t
> 
> Recent input:
> C-x C-f C-g M-x r e p <tab> o <tab> r <tab> <retur
> n>
> 
> Recent messages:
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> Quit
> Making completion list... [2 times]
> 
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
> 
> Features:
> (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr warnings emacsbug message format-spec
> rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231
> mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
> mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode server disp-table ps-print
> ps-def lpr vc vc-dispatcher python rx comint ring ansi-color cc-mode
> cc-fonts easymenu cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine
> cc-vars cc-defs time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type
> mwheel ns-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
> tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow
> timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu
> font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan
> thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
> european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook
> jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces
> cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format
> env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
> make-network-process ns multi-tty emacs)
> 
> --
> Fazal Majid
> CTO, Apsalar Inc.
> majid@apsalar.com
> +1 415 347-1277 (347-1APP)
> 
> 
>