2009/7/13 hvshare: > Hello, > > I've searched all over the web for an answer to my problem but i couldn't > find one, so I decided to send a mail here. > > After I installed Cygwin, I noticed that my home directory '~' is not > /home/helvio, i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/helvio (helvio is my user ID), as > I wanted it to. Instead, my home directory is /cygdrive/c/Program > Files/Emacs ! This is the folder where my GNU Emacs for Windows v21.3.1 is > installed (I got it here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/). I'd like > to Cygwin to open in /home/helvio by default, but I don't know how to do > this!
I'd guess that emacs has set a system-wide HOME environment variable. That would take precedence over the setting in Cygwin's /etc/passwd. Check under System Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables. (That's where they are in XP anyway.) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
