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From: jpayne@rochester.ARPA (Jonathan Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: notion of current directory (GNUemacs)
Message-ID: <23621@rochester.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 6-Jan-87 16:57:14 EST
Article-I.D.: rocheste.23621
Posted: Tue Jan  6 16:57:14 1987
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Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept., Rochester, NY
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Is the notion of current directory in GNU emacs PER BUFFER?  And is that
what gets changed when you do a cd?  Lots of times I want to find a file
in the current directory, namely the one in which I fired up emacs in the
first place.  But unless the file currently being visited is in that
directory, you have to retype the entire pathname (or whatever's
necessary).  You can't just say "./" and you can't delete the entire
supplied path name (say in find-file) and say "./" either.  What I really
want to do is find out what the current directory is - I don't care about
find-file.  But as far as I can tell, there's no way to find out what the
current directory is, short of running /bin/pwd into a buffer.  And I'm
not even sure if THAT will work (but it probably would).

Am I confused, or is there really no other way to do this?