Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!pravin From: pravin@eniac.seas.upenn.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Help me Message-ID: <43472@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 18 May 91 06:41:15 GMT References: <1991May12.225337.18788@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991May13.010900.26296@DSI.COM> <1991May16.235518.15297@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: pravin@eniac.seas.upenn.edu Organization: is there one? Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: eniac.seas.upenn.edu In a previous article brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes: |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 I don't face any such problem in my editing. I can read in any file in the directory I invoke elm from, by just givingthe file name after ^X^I. BTW, I use microemacs, not emacs. However that should not make a difference! Probably it has to do with the way elm has been configured on your machine.. pravin -- This program posts news to billions of machines throughout the galaxy. Your message will cost the net enough to bankrupt your entire planet, and as a result your species will be sold into slavery. Be sure you know what you are doing.