Set the default directory for treemacs when starting for the first time

[sethen]

If this is documented somewhere I apologize. I am unsure where to set a directory for when treemacs starts for the first time. For instance, if I reinstall treemacs and then issue the treemacs command it asks me to pick a directory. How can I make this automatic?

[Alexander-Miller]

It's described here: https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs#workspace-selection

Basically it depends on where treemacs is started from.

If you really insist you can set treemacs-current-workspace to something appropriate. Loading treemacs with require and then using treemacs-edit-workspaces could also work.

[sethen]

It's described here: https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs#workspace-selection

Basically it depends on where treemacs is started from.

If you really insist you can set treemacs-current-workspace to something appropriate. Loading treemacs with require and then using treemacs-edit-workspaces could also work.

I understand I can use the org-mode way to do it... But is there a way to set this on startup? Something like treemacs-edit-workspaces "~/Developer") or something??

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[Alexander-Miller]

Try something like this:

(progn
  (require 'treemacs)
  (setf
   (treemacs-current-workspace)
   (treemacs-workspace->create!
    :name "Foo Space"
    :projects
    (list
     (treemacs-project->create!
      :name "Downloads"
      :path "~/Downloads"
      :path-status 'local-readable)
     (treemacs-project->create!
      :name "Documents"
      :path "~/Documents"
      :path-status 'local-readable))))
  (treemacs--persist))