From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:19:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3)
Message-ID: <85tzpfb9c1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <94ccbe710709272117s6dee1a8jad6edf71dfb13c81@mail.gmail.com>

"Kelvie Wong" <kelvie@ieee.org> writes:

> On 9/27/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> It's not that emacs sets $PWD via its first argument, but the output
>> file is passed from emerge-files*-command to stashed in the per-buffer
>> variable emerge-file-out, which in turn gets passed to the emacs lisp
>> file write-file, which is what gets run when you run C-x C-w --- and
>> write-file interprets a relative pathname based on the containing
>> directory of the existing buffer.
>>                                                 - Ted
>>
>
> Ah yes, I just started reading up on elisp a little while ago :)
>
> I'd always assumed that emacs kept an internal "pwd" variable (i.e.
> what's displayed with M-x pwd), but I guess my way of thinking is
> archaic and deprecated :(

It does.  For every buffer.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum