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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
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Subject: Saving graces and "M-X make-dir RET RET" 20.3 "Sarajevo" XEmacs  Lucid (beta23)
X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Sarajevo" XEmacs  Lucid (beta23)

I just used the customize interface for the first time on an account
where I had not yet migrated .emacs to ~/.xemacs/init.el.  When saving
the option, customize complained about the missing directory, and
offered to make the directory with the usual message `to make the
directory use "M-X make-dir RET RET"'.

Unfortunately, when I typed `M-X make-dir RET' it offered `~/' as the
default.

To reproduce:
kill xemacs             # else XEmacs remembers there _was_ a .xemacs
mv .xemacs dot.xemacs
start xemacs from ~     # I _guess_ this is why XEmacs picked ~/ as default
customize something (in my case it was vm-spool-files, so I started VM
                     which filled INBOX, then Options/Custom/Var,
                     added a space in front)
set for session
save for future
M-x make-dir RET

and "~/" should be echoed as the default directory to make.

I don't have time to try to come up with a patch, and it's not clear
to me that it's entirely trivial....

Steve

