Re: current directory

[Fang lun gang]

>>>>> "help-gnu-emacs" == help-gnu-emacs  <help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com> writes:

    >> 
    >> The current directory is different for each buffer.  If you want the
    >> script to do the right thing for the file /a/b/c/file, start the script
    >> from the buffer which visits that file, not from the buffer that visits
    >> /g/d/f/file1.
    >> 

Eli, thank you, I figured this much. So, if I want to look up a variable which 
is in /a/b/c/file, but the ID file is in the /g/d/f tree - I am screwed.

    >>> I think this is one of the examples when emacs is overdoing its stuff -
    >>> it should have no business changing user's current directory or at least
    >>> allow to configure this behavior.
    >> 
    >> You are wrong: Emacs does _exactly_ what the user expects: all operations
    >> from a buffer that visits a file assume the default directory is the
    >> directory of that file.  This is not a global value, each buffer has its
    >> own setting of the default directory.
    >> 

Well, what makes you think that you can speak for all users? Am I not a user?  
I sure don't expect an editor to do it, no other editor I came across in almost 
20 years suffers from this malaise. If someone thinks this behavior is a 
benefit - at the very least leave the backdoor open to those ho doesn't.

    help-gnu-emacs> cheers, /vb

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Maybe in your case, emacs did to much. But emacs can only choose a policy that
preferred by most people in most cases. 

I guess you would appreciate almost everything it does for you if you come to
understand emacs. At least I do.

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Fang lun gang