Re: openwindows and emacs

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From: Bob Froehlig
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 23:12

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sjm@moggie.anu.edu.au (Stephen Meatheringham) writes:

>I am running OW2 on a Sparcstation IPC and am using the filemanager.   Under
>the tool properties menu I set the default document editor to run Xemacs
>(i.e. xemacs $FILE - where $FILE is the OW shorthand for the selected file).
>When the Xemacs window opens I am not editting the correct file if I am in
>a subdirectory of my home area.   The problem is that as far as emacs is 
>concerned I am in my home directory.   Does anyone have a fix for this??

A user here at USC had the same request, and by trial and error I found a way
around it using csh (since I tried and found out that emacs doesn't get
default-directory from sh).  What I ended up doing was setting the document
editor to 

	csh -c "x11emacs $FILE"

I hope that is of some help to you and others.
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Bob Froehlig			    internet: bobf@usc.edu
 Consultant/Programmer		    uucp: ...!uunet!usc!bobf
 University of Southern California  University Computing Services

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