Contents
How to change the default folder in Emacs?
Right click the shortcut, select Properties, and type the path to your desktop in the Start In field. If you’re using Emacs from the command line, default-directory starts as the directory where you started Emacs (the cwd).
What do you call a.emacs file on Windows?
On Windows, the .emacs file may be called _emacs for backward compatibility with DOS and FAT filesystems where filenames could not start with a dot. Some users prefer to continue using such a name due to historical problems various Windows tools had in the past with file names that begin with a dot.
How to set home environment variable in Emacs?
Create a new file ` StartEmacsServer .bat’ using the right click context menu. Right click this new file, select “Edit”, and insert: ‘rem’ is the Windows batch keyword for comments. This script sets a HOME environment variable for the current cmd process, meaning it will not exist beyond the running of the script.
How do I create a shortcut to Emacs?
Create a shortcut. Use this code for a desktop/task-bar shortcut. Right-click in a file folder, select New → Shortcut, and enter: This shortcut will connect to Emacs daemon if it is running, otherwise opens a new frame.
Where does the working directory go in Emacs?
If you start emacs without opening a file, you will end up with the *scratch* buffer open. If you started emacs from a Windows shortcut, the working directory will be the same as that specified in the shortcut properties. If you started it from the command line, it will be the directory from where you started it.
Is there a way to restore Emacs 26?
This is obviously just a temporary workaround, but it restores the previous behaviour of Emacs 26 without modifying any of my configuration or affecting Emacs command line calls, since it only modifies the Finder launch.
How to change the default directory in a buffer?
Make DIR become the current buffer’s default directory. If your environment includes a CDPATH variable, try each one of that list of directories (separated by occurrences of path-separator) when resolving a relative directory name. The path separator is colon in GNU and GNU-like systems.