From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88460 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: find-files prompt discrepancy Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:12:06 -0700 Message-ID: <87h8bwq961.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="221213"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36665@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Mar 21 21:12:34 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h743F-000vNE-Hj for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:12:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h7436-0006I4-F8; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:12:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h7431-0006FE-Ij for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:12:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h7430-0007nG-10 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:12:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h742w-0007i8-JT for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:12:16 +0100 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h742v-000v1P-A0 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:12:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:iDE3WCVpXbQRlD6znjYdF/ljFl0= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88460 Archived-At: Norman Walsh 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