Re: How to not change the working directory when opening a file

[Kevin Rodgers]

Francis Moreau wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'd like Emacs to not changing the working directory when opening
> a file.
>
> For example when doing:
>
> $ pwd
> /home/fmoreau/tmp
> $ emacs /tmp/foo.txt
>
> I'd like the current working directory to be "/home/fmoreau/tmp"
> when editing "/tmp/foo.txt" in emacs.
>
> This is useful when composing an email. I sometime need to
> include the output of a shell command but this shell command
> must be executed in the directory where emacs was launched.
>
> Does anybody can give me a hint to do that ?

(add-hook 'find-file-hook
          (lambda ()
            (setq default-directory
                  (buffer-local-value 'default-directory
                                      (get-buffer "*scratch*")))))
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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA