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bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has be
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Oct 2014 05:50:12 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 02:28:02 +0100
> From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
> Cc: 18851@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On 2014-10-28 17:34:59 -0400, Glenn Morris wrote:
> > Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >
> > > Emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed:
> >
> > It's easy to change that so that it switches to HOME instead (let's not
> > worry about the case of HOME being missing too!); see patch at end.
>
> Is there any reason to switch to another directory? Why doesn't
> Emacs just ignore that the current directory has been removed
> (and report errors only when an access to it is really needed)?
Because Emacs needs to pretend to the user that it runs _in_ that
directory, so that relative file names work as you'd expect.
In this regard, Emacs is like the shell.
> Note that the current directory can also be removed after Emacs
> is started, so I expect that Emacs already supports cases like
> that.
No, it does not. Either the OS leaves the directory in existence
until Emacs exits, or the OS prevents you from removing it.
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/10/27
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Glenn Morris, 2014/10/28
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/10/28
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Stefan Monnier, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/29
- bug#18851: 24.4; emacs cannot be started if the current directory has been removed, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/10/29