find-files prompt discrepancy

find-files prompt discrepancy

[Norman Walsh]

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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.)

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Nevermind (was Re: find-files prompt discrepancy)

[Norman Walsh]

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> Can anyone explain the discrepancy? (I usually run M-x gnus in the
> *scratch* buffer, as it happens, though I doubt that’s relevant.)

Lived with this behavior for ages, asked a question about it, five
minutes later noticed for the first that the behavior is *in fact*
dependent on where the cursor is in the *Groups* buffer. So this is
definitely helm-find-files trying to be clever in some way.

Ignore me.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | What is written without effort is in
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Re: Nevermind (was Re: find-files prompt discrepancy)

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

>> Can anyone explain the discrepancy? (I usually run M-x gnus in the
>> *scratch* buffer, as it happens, though I doubt that’s relevant.)
>
> Lived with this behavior for ages, asked a question about it, five
> minutes later noticed for the first that the behavior is *in fact*
> dependent on where the cursor is in the *Groups* buffer. So this is
> definitely helm-find-files trying to be clever in some way.

And my default-directory question was a red herring...

Re: find-files prompt discrepancy

[Eric Abrahamsen]

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

Re: find-files prompt discrepancy

[Jeffrey DeLeo]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> Looks like Gnus sets a value for `default-directory'. In my case it's
> "~/", what is it for you?

Isn't it wherever you were when you launched gnus? Also, you can change
it with M-x cd - helpful when extracting things

Re: find-files prompt discrepancy

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mär 22 2019, Jeffrey DeLeo <JeffreyDeLeo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
>
>> Looks like Gnus sets a value for `default-directory'. In my case it's
>> "~/", what is it for you?
>
> Isn't it wherever you were when you launched gnus?

You can set gnus-default-directory to override this.

Andreas.

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Re: find-files prompt discrepancy

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mär 21 2019, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> 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.

What is the value of default-directory?  That's what find-file uses as
the default.  If that value lacks a trailing slash, you need to find out
where that value was set.

Andreas.

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