Re: Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3)
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- Kelvie Wong <kelvie@ieee.org>
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- Sep 28, 2007, 04:17 UTC
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On 9/27/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
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> 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 :(
-- Kelvie