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Re: current directory
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Fang lun gang |
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Re: current directory |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:01:28 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "help-gnu-emacs" == help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> writes:
>>
>> The current directory is different for each buffer. If you want the
>> script to do the right thing for the file /a/b/c/file, start the script
>> from the buffer which visits that file, not from the buffer that visits
>> /g/d/f/file1.
>>
Eli, thank you, I figured this much. So, if I want to look up a variable which
is in /a/b/c/file, but the ID file is in the /g/d/f tree - I am screwed.
>>> I think this is one of the examples when emacs is overdoing its stuff -
>>> it should have no business changing user's current directory or at least
>>> allow to configure this behavior.
>>
>> You are wrong: Emacs does _exactly_ what the user expects: all operations
>> from a buffer that visits a file assume the default directory is the
>> directory of that file. This is not a global value, each buffer has its
>> own setting of the default directory.
>>
Well, what makes you think that you can speak for all users? Am I not a user?
I sure don't expect an editor to do it, no other editor I came across in almost
20 years suffers from this malaise. If someone thinks this behavior is a
benefit - at the very least leave the backdoor open to those ho doesn't.
help-gnu-emacs> cheers, /vb
>>
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>>
Maybe in your case, emacs did to much. But emacs can only choose a policy that
preferred by most people in most cases.
I guess you would appreciate almost everything it does for you if you come to
understand emacs. At least I do.
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Regards,
Fang lun gang
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- Re: current directory, vb, 2006/10/23
- Re: current directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/23
- Re: current directory, vb, 2006/10/23
- Re: current directory, Dieter Wilhelm, 2006/10/23
- Re: current directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/24