Wrong file path when saving through "customize" interface

Question

I've just started using emacs recently and it's fist time i try to configure it. I have following setup under Windows 7:

"...\emacs\config\.emacs"

"...\emacs\emacs-bin-w64-25.0.94-O2\..."

"...\emecs\emacs.exe" - this is actually a shortcut to emacs located in above directory.

Shortcut target:

"...\emacs\emacs-bin-w64-25.0.94-O2\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe -q -l config.emacs"

Start in:

"...\emacs\"

Above works just fine but I would like to be able to change settings using Custom mode. So in .emacs I've added following line:

(user-init-file (concat (pwd) "config/.emacs")

But it turns out that with this setting the "1 = Save for future session" option is gone when I try to save changes done in Custom mode.

So I added next line after that:

(setq custom-file user-init-file)

Now both variables store correct path to .emacs file. At least they store path I expect which is:

"...\emacs\config\.emacs"

And "1 = Save for future session" option is available back again but the problem occur when I try to use it. The minibufer give me this:

A buffer is visiting .../emacs/emacs-bin-w64-25.0.94-O2/emacs/share/info/Directory .../emacs/config/Directory .../emacs/config/.emacs; proceed? n user-error: Aborted

Basically it adds two additional paths to the one I specified. Why is that and how to fix it?

Answer 1

(setq foo (pwd)), then C-h v foo.

The value is not just a directory string. It's a directory string preceded by "Directory ".

Don't use pwd; use variable default-directory.