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/
