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bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup
From: |
Sean Devlin |
Subject: |
bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Aug 2020 00:08:14 -0400 |
> On Aug 12, 2020, at 10:32 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> From: Sean Devlin <spd@toadstyle.org>
>> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:17:28 -0400
>>
>>> When I open Emacs 27.1 by invoking the executable directly (i.e. the
>>> last method above), the default-directory in those buffers is "~/“.
>>
>> Correction: the default directory is the working directory of the parent
>> process (i.e. the shell) in this case.
>
> If that's what happens, it's what I would expect, and it happens for
> me on systems other than macOS.
That’s not the unexpected part; I just mentioned it for completeness.
The unexpected behavior is that opening the application by clicking the icon
sets default-directory to “/“ in the scratch buffer. This is true even though
the process-level working directory is my home directory. It is also a change
in behavior from 26.3.
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup, Sean Devlin, 2020/08/12
- Message not available
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup, Sean Devlin, 2020/08/12
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup, Alan Third, 2020/08/12
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup, Alan Third, 2020/08/13
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup, Paul Eggert, 2020/08/13
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup, Sean Devlin, 2020/08/13
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup, Alan Third, 2020/08/13
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup, Paul Eggert, 2020/08/13
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/08/12
- bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup,
Sean Devlin <=