set working-directory := justfile_directory()

[anacrolix]

I can't seem to set the working directory to remain unchanged.

Essentially I want [no-cd] to be the default everywhere.

Previously I've achieved this using a shebang with #!/usr/bin/env -S just --working-directory . --justfile but this doesn't work if I just invoke just in a directory, rather than execute the justfile directly.

> just -l
error: Expected keyword `x` but found identifier `justfile_directory`
 ——▶ justfile:2:26
  │
2 │ set working-directory := justfile_directory()
  │                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[nogweii]

See #2291 and #2082 for solving this.

[anacrolix]

Neither solves the case that you can't set the working directory programmatically for the whole file. You can already set it statically, so it seems odd.

[casey]

@anacrolix Yah, this is an unfortunate limitation of how evaluation works. Expressions can run commands, access files, and read environment variables, so how they execute depends on settings, so the value of settings can't be arbitrary expressions. The ultimate solution is probably to allow only expressions which don't depend on settings in setting values, see #2309, but that's a big change.

[anacrolix]

Thanks! And thanks for the effort on the great project.

[casey]

Of course! Thank you for the kind words ^_^