Yes, I understand the current behaviour.  I don't understand why $home was privileged this way, instead of the startup directory.  So for instance, if I drop the dump filename in the top-level tag, and chord it against dump, I get the right thing - it's deposited in the directory where acme was started.  I just don't understand why "acme.dump" should go to $home by default, when everything else in the editor is relative to the window directory.


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:49 AM, dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday 13 of January 2014 08:42:22 Paul Lalonde wrote:
> Can anyone explain to me the rationale of Dump dropping acme.dump in $HOME
> instead of $PWD?
> I know I can pass it a different filename, but it seems odd to put it in
> $HOME instead of where acme is called from.
> My use case is this: I'm working on two projects, and so want to maintain
> two long-term "sessions".  Dump does most of what I need when I move from
> one to the other, but if I don't chord in the project root directory to
> save the dump to, I kill my other project session.
> A one line change to looking at $PWD instead of $HOME makes acme much more
> useful for my case, but am I missing an important other use?


from acme(1):

Dump Write the state of acme to the file name, if specified, or
$home/acme.dump by default.


i.e., Dump takes one optional argument: file pathname.


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dexen deVries

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