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Article #189487Re: Xemacs on IBM/RS6000, ~/ is always the dir...
From: Marc Andreessen
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 1991 20:55
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 1991 20:55
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In article <6854@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> holtz@netcord.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Holtz) writes: >In article <9101291646.AA03939@rice-chex> cmcl2@NYU.EDU (Xiaojian Li) writes: >> >>I recently compiled Xemasc18.56.1 on IBM/RS6000 320. It works well under >>ksh, but seems to have trouble under csh: the starting dir is always ~/ >>no matter which directory I invoke xemacs from. Does anybody have the >>same problem? > >I had something similar happen to me once; all I remember is that it was >an interaction between tcsh and $PWD. >-- >Brian Holtz Not necessarily tcsh... under csh (and sh, but _not_ ksh, apparently) $PWD doesn't get updated on the RS/6000. Emacs reads $PWD, sees that it's ~ (under tcsh/csh/sh) and assumes you want ~. I suppose you could create a simple li'l shell script to cd and alter $PWD, alias it to 'cd', and you'd be set... Marc -- Marc Andreessen___________University of Illinois Materials Research Laboratory Internet: andreessen@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu____________Bitnet: andreessen@uiucmrl
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103b8b,f43621390f58abe9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103b8b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-01-29 19:30:17 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu!andreess From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Subject: Re: Xemacs on IBM/RS6000, ~/ is always the dir... Message-ID: <1991Jan29.205546.1232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 29 Jan 91 20:55:46 GMT References: <9101291646.AA03939@rice-chex> <6854@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana Lines: 25