Comments on: Miscellaneous Emacs Tips From My Commenters http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/misc-emacs-tips-from-commenters/ Leveraging Perl and Emacs Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:12:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/misc-emacs-tips-from-commenters/#comment-7294 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:10:03 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-7294

Maybe Robert could clarify what he wants?

Sounds like a plan :)

]]> By: Alex Bennee http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/misc-emacs-tips-from-commenters/#comment-7293 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:58:36 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-7293 Well default directory is set. This buffer’s default-directory is:

“/home/alex/.mozilla/firefox/m9cqb0pv.default/itsalltext/”

As it’s being edited via an emacsclient called via ItsAllText. Maybe Robert could clarify what he wants?

]]> By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/misc-emacs-tips-from-commenters/#comment-7292 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:57:46 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-7292 Hi Alex,

I think Robert was saying that when opening files using daemon it doesn’t set the current directory in the same way as find-file (although I might be mistaken).

]]> By: Alex Bennee http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/misc-emacs-tips-from-commenters/#comment-7286 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:39:02 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-7286 Have a look at the function find-file-read-args which is what is
called for C-x C-f. You can see there is a local default-directory
which should be the directory the file your editing is in.

(setq default-directory “/usr/share/”)

And bingo your shell commands will now run from here. Although most of the time I find I want shell commands to run in the same directory as the file I’m messing with.

]]> By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/misc-emacs-tips-from-commenters/#comment-7283 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:23:45 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-7283 Hi Robert,

I don’t use emacs -daemon so I’m not really familiar with the problem (see here for what I use). Having said that, perhaps adding a function to find-file-hook that sets the current directory might be what you want, or are you looking for a more complete solution?

]]> By: Robert http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/misc-emacs-tips-from-commenters/#comment-7282 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:04:47 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=267#comment-7282 I’m using emacs –daemon and just realized that emacs no longer has a useful current directory. Any ideas on how to fix that?

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