Re: DiTAA graph not in local directory

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
writes:

> Hi Bernt,
>
> Bernt Hansen wrote:
>> Sébastien Vauban writes:
>>> I have, since long, the following chunk in my `.emacs', for setting the
>>> `default-directory':
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> ;; change the default directory (if it exists)
>>> ;; (it is also the default directory when attaching files to mails)
>>> (let ((my-default-directory "~/"))
>>>   (setq default-directory
>>>         (if (file-directory-p my-default-directory)
>>>             my-default-directory
>>>           (getenv "HOME"))))
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> I think this function is the cause of your problems.  I think you are
>> changing the default directory for whatever buffer is active when you
>> execute that.  If that buffer happens to be the org file you want to
>> export you are changing where the resulting export files go.
>
> I commented the above in my `.emacs' file and restarted Emacs.
>
>
>>> Anyway, I don't remember exactly why I did set that, but I think it's for easy
>>> opening of files (right prefix when `C-x C-f').
>>
>> I just use C-x C-f ~/
>>
>> and whatever current directory was active is dropped.  I don't think you
>> need your setq default-directory at all - you just need to teach your
>> fingers to add ~/ after C-x C-f
>
> Yes, I'll do that now... In fact, I implemented this, years ago, for "easily"
> attaching documents to emails.
>
>
>>> When looking for the current value of that variable
>
> I now have:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> default-directory is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is 
> "/home/sva/Projects/Insurance/Acme/docs/operations-manual/"
> Local in buffer Upload_documentation.tex; global value is nil
>
>   Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.
>   This variable is safe as a file local variable if its value
>   satisfies the predicate `stringp'.
>
> Documentation:
> Name of default directory of current buffer.  Should end with slash.
> To interactively change the default directory, use command `cd'.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> from both the Org file and the TeX file. Correct, thus.
>
> Though, I have exactly the same problem as yesterday: only the TeX file is
> produced locally when `C-c C-e d', and all the other files (.aux, .log and the
> .png from Ditaa) are stored in `~/'.
>
> Ununderstandable...

That's weird.  I created a test.org file in /tmp/foo/bar/baz/test.org
and made a small ditaa diagram (foo.png) with two rectangles in it.

C-c C-e d creates

,----
| bernt@gollum:/tmp/foo/bar/baz$ ls
| foo.png  test.org  test.pdf  test.tex
| bernt@gollum:/tmp/foo/bar/baz$ 
`----

and nothing else.  I don't get .aux, .log etc in there.

For me all files are in the same directory as the .org
file.

,----
| default-directory is a variable defined in `C source code'.
| Its value is "/tmp/foo/bar/baz/"
| Local in buffer test.org; global value is nil
`----

I'm afraid I'm out of ideas on this one.

-Bernt