victor@uicadb.csl.uiuc.edu (Victor Ma) (03/15/91)
folks: Here's a quicky for anyone... When I start emacs in a subdirectory, it looks for the file in my home directory, which, of course, is the wrong place to look. How come emacs doesn't look first in my current directory like all other programs that I use. Do I have to set a special shell variable or something? thanks, victor
khera@thneed.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) (03/18/91)
In article <1991Mar14.195551.23647@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> victor@uicadb.csl.uiuc.edu (Victor Ma) writes:
When I start emacs in a subdirectory,
it looks for the file in my home
directory, which, of course, is the
wrong place to look. How come
emacs doesn't look first in my current
directory like all other programs that
I use. Do I have to set a special
shell variable or something?
emacs believes your PWD environment variable. my guess is that
somewhere along the line you switch shells, and the new one doesn't
update PWD. just unset that variable from your environment and emacs
will look in the current directory.
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