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Re: call-process in scratch buffer with non-existent default-directory
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: call-process in scratch buffer with non-existent default-directory |
Date: |
29 Aug 2001 10:11:35 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.105 |
>>>>> "Roland" == Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> Signaling: (file-error "Setting current directory" "no such file or
> directory" "/nfs/home/winkler/scratch/")
> call-process("lynx" nil t nil "-dump" "http://dict.leo.org/?search=We")
Under Unix, every process has a "current directory". When Emacs starts
a new process, it uses `default-directory' as the current directory for
that process. For that reason `default-directory' should always have
a meaningful value.
Stefan