Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <1378.10.0.0.7.1095587788.squirrel@10.0.0.7> In-Reply-To: <B9721831E371CD4F84C4F5E87476D356FB81BB@iu-mssg-mbx04.exchange.iu.edu> References: <B9721831E371CD4F84C4F5E87476D356FB81BB AT iu-mssg-mbx04 DOT exchange DOT iu DOT edu> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:56:28 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: emacs problem results from bad $HOME value From: "John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Sarah wrote: > Solved the problem with emacs flaking out. The default values for $HOME > and $home set up in the default .login file were wrong. Hi Sarah, What .login file? (what shell come to that?) > Commented out > the lines that set them and hardcoded the correct location. Pretty You might be better to modify the root - /etc/passwd, but I'm kinda suprised it didn't work; what is the home specified in there and what do you want it to be? > 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? Can't help with the emac problem - I'm a vim person ;) J. -- 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/