Am Mittwoch 22 April 2009 18:21:01 schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:59:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > I was horrified to discover in the last few weeks that Emacs now > > > also defaults to ~/Documents when you start it up, making you > > > delete the useless Documents before you can actually type in > > > something useful. Is this part of some desktop conspiracy to force > > > us to use these Capitalised "folder" names?! > > > > Umm, what? I use Emacs from Git, and I have never seen that > > directory. Indeed, grepping through the source. the only place that > > appears is in rmail-mime-attachment-dirs-alist -- have I found the only > > other person in the world apart from RMS who uses rmail? > > I too have looked through the emacs sources, the installed files > under /usr/share/emacs*, my .emacs and /etc/emacs* and I can see no > trace of this, but when I hit C-x C-f on startup, it defaults to > ~/Documents. I still can't find where this is set. > > Ah, I now think I have it. KDE4 must default to its CWD being > ~/Documents (yuck, I really don't want that directory!), and by default > emacs will use the CWD as the default path.
I am running KDE4 but only the -nox version of emacs. I don't have ~/Documents in my $HOME and emacs doesn't default to it, just the current dir as you already realized. HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
