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RE: setting the default directory on Windows startup
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Bingham, Jay |
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RE: setting the default directory on Windows startup |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:44:30 -0500 |
One way to do this is to open the properties for each shortcut that you have
for starting emacs and put c:\ in the start in: field. There may be other ways
but when I found this one I quit looking.
By the way there is a mail list just for emacs windows
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Barton [mailto:abarton@coas.oregonstate.edu]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:11 PM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: setting the default directory on Windows startup
I'm a new user of emacs on Windows, although I have some experience on Linux
OS versions. When I open an emacs session and select 'File' -> 'Open file'
, my directory tree starts looking in 'c:\emacs\bin\' when I would prefer
that it start looking in my 'c:\home' directory.
I found the variable 'insert-default-directory', but this just seems to be a
toggle switch, and does not allow me to input the name of a new default
directory. I'm aware that I can simply 'cd' in to my working directory each
time I open an emacs session, but I'd like my sessions to automatically 'cd'
to my working directory on startup. How do I go about doing this?
Thanks for your assistance.
-Alan Barton
abarton@coas.oregonstate.edu
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