Re: Persisting the current working directory in an org-babel session

[Ihor Radchenko]

Adam Sneller <adam@earth2adam.com> writes:

> For some reason, I am unable to make changes to my working directory persist, 
> from one emacs-lisp SRC block to the next.
>
> For example, consider the following:
>
>       * Literate programming in a single session
>       :PROPERTIES:
>       :header-args: :var DIR="/Users/adam/Desktop/test"
>       :END:
>
>       #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :session *elisp*
>       (cd DIR)
>       #+END_SRC
>
>       #+RESULTS:
>       : /Users/adam/Desktop/test/
>
>
>       #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :session *elisp*
>       (cd ".")
>       #+END_SRC
>
>       #+RESULTS:
>       : /Users/adam/org/

Confirmed.

This is because `org-babel-execute-src-block' let-binds
`default-directory'. So, your changes to it are only affecting lexical
scope.

Fixes welcome!

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