X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: setting cygwin PATH Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:24:24 +0100 Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <1200 DOT 192 DOT 168 DOT 0 DOT 12 DOT 1177954215 DOT squirrel AT mail DOT morrison DOT mine DOT nu> <757912 DOT 72511 DOT qm AT web52010 DOT mail DOT re2 DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 * Fungazid (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:58:50 -0700 (PDT)) > I did the same thing with xemacs. The problem is that > it is not enough if I want the path to stay > permanently. How do cygwin knows to look at this file > (".bashrc") in the HOME directory ? Cygwin doesn't know. Bash knows. But only if your shell is not a login shell. Or if your ~/.bash_profile sources ~/.bashrc. -- 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/