Just wanted to let those who have followed this thread that I found the solution. You were right, this is no Cygwin problem, but an Emacs bug. It doesn't recognize correctly the "w" right for RCS/CVS files. The fix is to put (setq vc-ignore-vc-files t) in the .emacs file.
Thanks for your help locating the problem. I really thought this had something to do with my Cygwin config. Cheers, Axelle. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/