Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic@gmail.com> writes:

On clisp 2.48+cygwin and slime of 2010-09-03, changing directory leaves *default-pathname-defaults* unchanged.

Is that a feature or bug?

It's a feature. EXT:CD changes the POSIX current working directory. Setting *default-pathname-defaults* changes the default lisp pathname defaults. Changing them doesn't change the default-directory in emacs either. Well, if you want to keep synchronized the POSIX current working directory with *default-pathname-defaults*, you could use com.informatimago.common-lisp.browser:cd instead of ext:cd. http://www.informatimago.com/develop/lisp/com/informatimago/common-lisp/brow... It has a hook to let your update *default-pathname-defaults*. I put: (PUSH (FUNCTION EXT:CD) COM.INFORMATIMAGO.COMMON-LISP.BROWSER:*CHANGE-DIRECTORY-HOOK*) (CD (EXT:CD)) in my ~/.clisprc.lisp to initialize it. And if you're using slime, you could also update default-directory in emacs too from this hook. Notice that swank has it's own current directory: swank:set-default-directory swank:default-directory which, in the case of clisp is hardwired to ext:cd, but which doesn't update default-directory in emacs. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/