Subject: Alternate Editing Directory

From: Leif Euren <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:12:58 +0200

I'm using pine 3.95 on SunOS 4.1.  As a rule, I use emacs as the
alternate editor when sending messages.  When emacs is launched, it's
working directory is the machine wide temporary directory /tmp .

As it often happens that I'd like to include parts of files in my
messages, this is annoying, as the emacs include-command starts
looking at /tmp, and I have to manually redirect the path to my
home-directory.

What I want is to tell emacs to start with my home-directory as
"current working directory".  Is this possible?  I've searched the
setup menues and the web pages at http://www.washington.edu/pine/ but
found nothing!

Please tell me how to accomplish this!

   Leif Eurén				CelsiusTech Systems AB
   [email-masked]			Sweden

   All opinions are my own, even if my employer claims otherwise!

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:51:02 -0400

On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Leif Euren wrote:

> I'm using pine 3.95 on SunOS 4.1.

    And I am using Pine 3.94 on SunOS 4.1.4, so our environments are
very close.

>                                    As a rule, I use emacs as the
> [...]

    I wonder if this might be a problem with emacs, which I am not
familiar with.  I use JOE 2.8 all the time as my alternate editor under
Pine (comes up automatically).  When JOE starts, such as when I began
this reply, the working directory is /tmp, just as you are saying, as
shown by the status bar displayed on the top of my screen.  However,
any command I give to or pass though JOE that involves the working
directory uses whatever was the current directory when I started Pine. 
For example, if I want to import a file without specifying a path, the
file will not be imported from /tmp but rather from whatever is the
"underlying" working directory when Pine started.

    That's why I speculate your problem may have something to do with
the connection specifically between emacs and Pine.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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