Jeffrey Cunningham jeffrey@jkcunningham.com writes:
Greetings,
This problem has been bothering me for awhile. If I start emacs and then slime in one directory and M-x cd to another, even though M-x pwd tells me I am in the other directory, running a simple piece of code like
(with-open-file (*standard-output* "test" :direction :output) (print (get-universal-time)))
demonstrates that Lisp still thinks it's "current" directory is the first directory.
How do you get around this problem? The only way I know is to kill the current inferior-lisp, change directories, and start a new one, which seems somewhat over-kill to say the least.
Common Lisp uses the standard variable *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* to control how relative pathnames are turned into absolute pathnames for filesystem operations.
http://l1sp.org/cl/*default-pathname-defaults* has more info.
Zach