Re: PWD is not seen by my emacs installation

[stefan-husmann]

Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> writes:

> Hardware -
>
>    Macbook Pro 14" (Apple M1 Pro)
>    Mac OS 13.1 (Ventura)
>
> Emacs -
>
>    Emacs 28.2 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin21.1.0, NS appkit-2113.00
> Version 12.0.1 (Build 21A559)) of 2022-09-12)
>
> My emacs does not see the current directory, but instead is expecting
> everything to be under ~/.  I thought emacs grokked the PWD environment
> variable.
>
> From my shell -
>
>     % echo $PWD
>     /Users/mahan/src/PPP/ppp-master/pppd
>
> But inside my .emacs I have -
>
> (setq workingdir (getenv "PWD"))
> message "PWD = '%s'" workingdir)

There is  missing a ( at beginning of line? You should get an
"unbalanced parantheses" message.

>
> Which results in -
>
> PWD = ’nil’
>
> Unless I open using a Full pathname, it will not open the file
> correctly.

What file?
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick


How did you invoke emacs? If you start it from some graphical MacOS
environment, may PWD _is_ undefined (I know nothing about MacOS)? Did you cd 
into
/Users/mahan/src/PPP/ppp-master/pppd in a shell and start emacs from
the command line from there?

Best Regards
Stefan