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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..

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Check the default-directory variable.

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  • Thank you very much. However, default-directory changes with each found file. I'd like to find the "working directory" where Emacs have been launched. Apr 30, 2015 at 9:37
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    Emacs 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-abo
    Apr 30, 2015 at 9:39
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    +1 M-x pwd just prints the message with the value of the variable default-directory Apr 30, 2015 at 10:45
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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.

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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.

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  • Thank you, but I'd like to save it in a variable. Apr 30, 2015 at 10:11

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