Paul Collins <paul@burly.ondioline.org> writes:

> I recently added the following piece of advice:
>
>     (defadvice gnus (before gnus-homedir-advice activate)
>        (cd (expand-file-name "~/")))
>
> This is so that subprocesses started by Gnus (e.g. my IMAP wossname)
> don't end up with a network directory as their cwd.  However, advising
> the `gnus' function makes its check for compiled-ness trip, which is
> annoying since I habitually recall *Group* with `M-x gnus RET'.  I've
> removed the check from my local copy, but it might be nice to fix it
> in Gnus so that it doesn't trip others up.

Setting `gnus-default-directory' might help.  Maybe the
`gnus-set-default-directory' function could force the current directory
to be something sane if (file-remote-p default-directory) is non-nil.

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