Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ALEXANDER.BBN.COM!jr From: jr@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM (John Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: notion of current directory (GNUemacs) Message-ID: <8701071547.AA21030@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 10:47:46 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8701071547.AA21030 Posted: Wed Jan 7 10:47:46 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Jan-87 22:42:37 EST References: <8701071524.1076@ur-seneca.arpa> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 17 Some things that might help. Therre is a getenv function; if your cwd is in your environment, it would be easy to snarf in the .emacs. But of course (pwd) tells you this info anyway. Another way is to use environment variables ($HOME, e.g.) in the prompt for find file. Since it expands to a directory name, you can type, e.g., ^X ^F $ H O M E SPC, at which point the Find File: prompt will show you your home abs path and let you type more. If emacs is given $CWD on startup, this should work to get the directory it was started in. /jr jr@bbn.com or jr@bbnccv.uucp Without life, there wouldn't be chemical companies.