Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: emacs problem results from bad $HOME value Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:03:19 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Koskie, Sarah" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Sep 2004 01:03:20.0161 (UTC) FILETIME=[743F0D10:01C49DE4] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i8J13PvF025628 Solved the problem with emacs flaking out. The default values for $HOME and $home set up in the default .login file were wrong. Commented out the lines that set them and hardcoded the correct location. Pretty irritating that this emacs (21.2-13) can't deal with this though. I've never had this problem with any emacs I've used before. Should be able to say ^x^w and correct the pathname rather than being unable to continue working and unable to do anything to save one's work. Is one of the other options more robust? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/