Re: Changing default starting directory

[Jesper Harder]

Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> writes:

> When I start up my Emacs (21.2 on Redhat 8) my startup directory in
> *scratch* is by default
>
> /home/chuck
>
> I want to change this to 
>
> /mnt/win_d/docs
>
> And so I added the following to my .emacs file:
>
>  '(default-directory "/mnt/win_d/docs")
>
> This does not do the trick.

Put 
    (cd "/mnt/win_d/docs")

in your .emacs instead.