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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Help me
Message-ID: <1991May17.212748.13715@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991May12.225337.18788@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991May13.010900.26296@DSI.COM> <1991May16.235518.15297@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 May 91 21:27:48 GMT

In article <1991May16.235518.15297@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jjohnson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James R Johnson) writes:
>My question and/or problem is similar and I have been waiting for the
>subject to surface.   I use emacs as my default editor (I specified
>this in my .elmrc) because that is the editor that I use day to day and
>am most familiar with.  Emacs command ctrl-x ctrl-i is the command 
>sequence that I invoke to include a file when I am nomally running 
>emacs.  The problem comes in when I try to invoke that sequence when I
>am running emacs from within elm.  It does recognize the command, but is
>unable to find the file, even though the file exists in my work directory.

I find that I need to specify the full path to the file,
i.e. /files/home/users/heiser/file, or ~/file.



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