From: davep DOT news2 AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Dave Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: emacs getting confused about location of ~/.emacs
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 08:18:15 GMT
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Summary: emacs is getting confused about the location of ~/.emacs
Keywords: EMACS DJGPP WIN95 OSR2 _EMACS .EMACS LOCATION
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I wonder if anyone can offer a suggestion as to what is going wrong here?
I'm currently setting up my DJGPP environment on a brand new machine and
everything has gone fine except for emacs. For some reason it is refusing to
find it's init-file.

On this new machine it would appear that emacs is confused about where my
home directory is. For example, evaluating:

   (expand-file-name user-init-file)

results in:

   "C:/~DAVEP/_emacs"

if I'm in the root of drive C. It would also appear that emacs thinks it
should find the init-file in:

   "<CurrentLocation>/~DAVEP/_emacs"

On my existing machine this is never a problem, emacs always thinks that my
init-file is:

   "$HOME/_emacs"

The only (obvious) difference between these two machines is that my existing
machine is Win95 OSR1 and the new one is Win95 OSR2. On both machines I set
HOME in AUTOEXEC.BAT ("C:\dave" on my old machine, "C:\Home\davep" on my new
machine), LOGUSER is set to "DAVEP" and in both cases USER in DJGPP.ENV is
set to "DAVEP".

   [emacs]
   INFOPATH=%/>;INFOPATH%%DJDIR%/info;%DJDIR%/gnu/emacs/info
   TERM=
   SHELL=c:/djgpp/bin/bash
   SUSPEND=c:/4dos/4dos.com

The emacs version is 20.2, built from source.

Thanks in advance for any ideas or pointers you can provide.

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