From: Kelvie Wong <kelvie@ieee.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:17:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Mergetool generating blank files (1.5.3)
Message-ID: <94ccbe710709272117s6dee1a8jad6edf71dfb13c81@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070927225218.GD8688@thunk.org>

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 :(

-- 
Kelvie