Startup in the project/package root is experimental and isn't enabled by default.
Is it possible you are using a dev version from a month or so ago? For instance you could have installed it with melpa. The released version or the current dev version should not exhibit that behaviour. Best, Lionel > On 2 déc. 2017, at 18:43, Vitalie Spinu <spinu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think this is a consequence of the recent feature which sets the default > directory to the package directory. It looks like it treats your tmp directory > as a package. @Lionel? > > Vitalie > >>> On Thu, Nov 30 2017 18:59, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Greetings. > >> I want to have ESS know the working directory from shell pwd, I don't >> want it to ask me. > >> I have a setting in my init.el that used to work that way: > >> ;; start R in current working directory, don't let R ask user: >> (setq ess-ask-for-ess-directory nil) > >> Recently, it has stopped working. The symptom of the problem is that >> the R session working directory trims off the last element in the >> path. This is in Ubuntu 17.04 with emacs 24.5.1 and ess 17.11. > >> When I open a file from command line, say in > >> $ cd ~/tmp/R/ >> $ emacs testme.R > >> and then I hit the bug blue icon to start R, then getwd() shows >> "~/tmp". The last element in the path is lost. Same happens if I >> start R with "Alt-x R", so don't hate me for liking your pretty blue R >> button. > >> I notice that M-x eshell gets it right, it opens a shell in the /R >> directory (the correct one). Also Emacs File "Open Directory" also >> gets it right. Its just the inferior ESS *R* session that doesn't get >> it right. > >> If I remove that line from init.el, then the ESS process stops and >> asks me what directory what I want and it always guesses correctly. > >> I never saw this happen before today when opening a pre-existing R >> file from the shell. I have seem similar in past if I have an Emacs >> session open and close the R session and re-start a new R session >> without closing Emacs. That second instance almost always has lost >> the "R" from the file path, and shows the parent directory. > >> Would somebody try it and tell me if I've just gone all the way off >> the cliff toward crazy? > >> Suggestions welcome (except concerning cliffs), thanks as usual. > >> pj > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help