Ok, sorry for the noise. I realize I misunderstood a number of things. In looking through things now I see:

* if pd is started first, pd-gui uses the current working dir
* if pd-gui is started first, it sends the current working dir

So after startup, both should have the same current working dir. Good.

My confusion was coming from the role of $::fileopendir and $::filenewdir. I see that they are really placeholders for the current dir the user has navigated to when using either the menu panels or [openpanel] / [savepanel]. They previously did not directly reflect the current working dir anyway...

On Dec 1, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

Or maybe I'm mainly seeing a disparity because I introduced one with the Documents path... ;) hah

On Dec 1, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm noticing that pd and the pd-gui seem to have different notions about the current directory:

* pd: when started on commandline, current path is the working directory when pd was started
* pd-gui: when started before pd, current path for panels is $::env(HOME) aka home directory ... even though *actual* current dir is pd bin folder

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