Re: How to change default "insert file" path /tmp to home directory?

[gerlach]

Am 10.05.2013 23:02, schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon:
> gerlach <jack@aiai.de> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> > I googl'ed a lot and didn't find it: how can I change the default
> > "insert path" (ctrl-x i) from /tmp to e.g.  /home/gerlach  ?
>
> M-: (setq default-directory "/home/gerlach/") RET

i state today that its any longer working! Default directory is /tmp 
once again. At least in Why?

my /home/gerlach/.emacs
(setq fill-column 50)
(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)
(setq default-directory "/home/gerlach/")


BTW: (setq fill-column 50)  is ignored. Even if I insert 20 instead of 
50. Why?

The .emacs file is found and read, the proof: when I produce a error like
(setq asdasdfasdfasdf fill-column 50)  the error is claimed by emacs at 
start.

(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)  is also 
ignored. I have to execute the command explicitely.


Then I want to enable php highlightning with my old emacs (Suse 11.1, 
don't know the version) this worked fine:
(setq auto-mode-alist
     (append
     '( (".*\.php$" .html-mode) (".*\.php$" .html-mode)
      )
      auto-mode-alist))

In my actual emacs 23.3.1  nothing works ... even not default-directory 
"/home/gerlach/" ... incredible ... WHY?


I use emacs in text mode (-nw) only.

tia
Eckard