Re: Sometimes emacs starts up in the wrong directory

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From: Damon Lipparelli
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:39

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In article <199209081958.AA02286@halka.cms-stl.com> harlan@cms-stl.COM (Harlan Stenn (PFCS Corporation)) writes:

>> In GNU Emacs 18.58.15 of Sat Jun 13 1992 on haduk (hpux)
>>
>> Sometimes I'll be in a directory other than my home directory and I'll
>>type:
>>
>>    % emacs foo
>>
>> where foo is the name of a file that exists in the current directory,
>> and emacs will come up with an empty buffer, apparently pointing to
>> ~/foo .
>>
>> This only seems to happen on our HP's running HPUX 08.07.
>>
>> Any ideas on what's going on and how I can fix the problem?
>>
>> Harlan

You probably have the environment variable PWD set to your home directory.
Trying adding a line like "unsetenv PWD" in your ".cshrc" file (or
whatever) and then re-start emacs.  For some reason, emacs assumes that
whatever is in PWD is where you wan't emacs to start up.

Damon Lipparelli
(lipp@sierra.com)
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