I know I can run M-x pwd which will give me Directory ~/ or something like that. Can I get it without the "Directory" bit?
Thank you very much.
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You could also add
(setq my-initial-directory default-directory)
to your Emacs init file.
In that way, you could later access the directory where Emacs was launched by evaluating my-initial-directory..
answered Apr 30, 2015 at 9:49
Check the default-directory variable.
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Thank you very much. However,
default-directorychanges with each found file. I'd like to find the "working directory" where Emacs have been launched. Apr 30, 2015 at 9:37 -
3Emacs doesn't rely on that notion. For a lot of people, it was launched 2 months ago. Don't close Emacs unless you're rebooting.– abo-aboApr 30, 2015 at 9:39
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M-x pwdjust prints the message with the value of the variabledefault-directoryApr 30, 2015 at 10:45
I just found out I can do (getenv "PWD") on Linux on bash. I'm not sure if there's a better (more platform-agnostic and Emacs) way to do so.
You can evaluate (call-process "pwd" nil t), e.g. typing M-: (call-process "pwd" nil t) RET. This will run Unix pwd command and insert its output at the point in the current buffer, if the buffer is not read-only. It's not clear from the question what for and why you need the current directory without Directory prefix.
