From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: find-files prompt discrepancy
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:12:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8bwq961.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ftrg6mgl.fsf@nwalsh.com>
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> This is an extremely minor thing, but …
>
> If I’m editing a buffer, perhaps *scratch*, then find-file
> (helm-find-files actually) prompts: /Users/ndw/
>
> If I’m in the gnus (v5.13) *Groups* buffer, it prompts: /Users/ndw
>
> Note the absence of a trailing slash.
>
> I don’t know how many times I’ve type C-x C-f /path/to/somewhere and
> not gone where I expected.
>
> Can anyone explain the discrepancy? (I usually run M-x gnus in the
> *scratch* buffer, as it happens, though I doubt that’s relevant.)
Looks like Gnus sets a value for `default-directory'. In my case it's
"~/", what is it for you?
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-21 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-21 19:45 Norman Walsh
2019-03-21 20:01 ` Nevermind (was Re: find-files prompt discrepancy) Norman Walsh
2019-03-21 20:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-03-21 20:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2019-03-22 12:09 ` find-files prompt discrepancy Jeffrey DeLeo
2019-03-22 16:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-03-21 20:19 ` Andreas Schwab
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