This is because ~ expands to ${HOME}, which is /cygdrive/c/home.
To recap, this same exact .bashrc file used to work, on my previous
Windows(2000) machine. Now, on WinXP, it doesn't. In fact, even if I
explicitly type "source~/.bashrc" at the shell prompt, it doesn't work.
You should not set it. Cygwin will do it for you.I don't get errors, but the aliases are not defined. That is the problem I've been seeing. I'd like to have some aliases for common commands, and I'd like to be able to set some environment variables, like adding some dirctories to my path. (These don't need to be in the Windows-wide path... just in Cygwin.) Also, copying .bashrc to .bash_profile and then starting a new bash shell doesn't work.
If anyone can tell me how to define these aliases and environment variables, I'll be*very* grateful.
You can still set your HOME, there's nothing (that I know of!) wrong with doing so.
Igor suggested that my $HOME is set wrong, although everything worked on my old machine with this same setting. What should this be, and how should it get set?
If you want Emacs to work, then set it to your real cygwin home, and move your .emacs* files into your real home dir. (That's the way I do it).
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