Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!widener!brendan From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Help me Message-ID: Date: 17 May 91 22:54:51 GMT References: <1991May12.225337.18788@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991May13.010900.26296@DSI.COM> <1991May16.235518.15297@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Widener CS Dept Lines: 26 jjohnson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu wrote: > Emacs command ctrl-x ctrl-i is the command >sequence that I invoke to include a file when I am nomally running >emacs. The problem comes in when I try to invoke that sequence when I >am running emacs from within elm. It does recognize the command, but is >unable to find the file, even though the file exists in my work directory. That's because when you enter emacs from within Elm, your current directory is /tmp. If you'll notice, when you type C-x C-i, you'll see it leading off with '/tmp/'. You just have to give it your work directory's path. For example, if it's in your login directory, you'd type: Include file: /tmp/~/work/this.file (you don't have to erase the /tmp/ that's already there; naming another directory [in this case ~] overrides what comes before) I've used Emacs comfortably in Elm for a good while now, without any problems. -- Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone "Visualize a dream; look for it in the present tense -- a greater calm than before. If you persist in your efforts, you can achieve...dream control."