Subject: Re: bug#42836: 27.1; default-directory is set to "/" after startup

From: Sean Devlin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:17:28 -0400

> When I open Emacs 27.1 by invoking the executable directly (i.e. the
> last method above), the default-directory in those buffers is "~/“.

Correction: the default directory is the working directory of the parent process (i.e. the shell) in this case.

Thanks!