[ESS] starting directory not detected correctly anymore

[Lionel Henry]

It seems there is an issue with Emacs 24, I'll look into it.

Could you open a github issue please? And confirm there that
you still see the problem when you open Emacs with -q flag
(to prevent loading of init file).

Lionel


> On 12 déc. 2017, at 06:29, Susumu Tanimura <aruminat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Similar trouble happens to me.
> 
> $ pwd
> /tmp
> $ emacs test.R &
> 
> then, after starting R session,
>> getwd()
> [1] "/"
> 
> ESS always starts in the parent directory of current directory. Nothing
> to do with "R" directory. 
> 
> Any help?
> 
> $ lsb_release -d
> Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
> $ emacs --version |head -1
> GNU Emacs 24.5.1
> $ dpkg -l ess |tail -1
> ii  ess            17.11-2xenial0 all          Emacs mode for statistical programming and data analysis
> 
> -- 
> Susumu
> 
> 
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:59:46 -0600
> Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> 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
> 
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