I am fairly new to Emacs and I have been trying to figure out how to change the default folder for C-x C-f on start-up. For instance when I first load Emacs and hit C-x C-f its default folder is C:\emacs\emacs-21.3\bin
, but I would rather it be the desktop. I believe there is some way to customize the .emacs
file to do this, but I am still unsure what that is.
Update: There are three solutions to the problem that I found to work, however I believe solution 3 is Windows only.
Solution 1: Add (cd "C:/Users/Name/Desktop")
to the .emacs
file
Solution 2: Add (setq default-directory "C:/Documents and Settings/USER_NAME/Desktop/")
to the .emacs
file
Solution 3: Right click the Emacs short cut, hit properties and change the start in field to the desired directory.