Re: PWD is not seen by my emacs installation

[Rudolf Schlatte]

Patrick Mahan <plmahan@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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?
>>
>>
> Thanks!  That was a good suggestion.  I was using the Mac OS X 'open'
> command which is probably, as you suggested, not picking up the correct
> environment, though oddly it is picking up the PATH correctly.

In that case, you can write "open -a Emacs.app /path/to/somefile.txt"
and it will be opened by Emacs as expected.

Note that in Emacs, each buffer has its own "current directory", so
e.g. starting dired when in the "somefile.txt" buffer will display the
contents of "/path/to".