"Kelvie Wong" <kelvie@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On 9/27/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It's not that emacs sets $PWD via its first argument, but the output >> file is passed from emerge-files*-command to stashed in the per-buffer >> variable emerge-file-out, which in turn gets passed to the emacs lisp >> file write-file, which is what gets run when you run C-x C-w --- and >> write-file interprets a relative pathname based on the containing >> directory of the existing buffer. >> - Ted >> > > Ah yes, I just started reading up on elisp a little while ago :) > > I'd always assumed that emacs kept an internal "pwd" variable (i.e. > what's displayed with M-x pwd), but I guess my way of thinking is > archaic and deprecated :( It does. For every buffer. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
