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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: SDS <sds.biz.main@gmail.com>
Cc: 16087@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16087: Setting HOME environment variable in Emacs on Windows has side effects
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:09:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lhzvyuj4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52A4CC37.1040302@gmail.com>

> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2013 14:44:55 -0500
> From: SDS <sds.biz.main@gmail.com>
> CC: 16087@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Ultimately, I'd like my HOME variable in NT-Emacs to point to the Cygwin 
> HOME directory. This allows any Cygwin utilities used by NT-Emacs to 
> have HOME set correctly. Also, I'd like ~ to be set to the Cygwin HOME 
> directory. I tried changing it in init.el, and that's where this issue 
> arose.

Thanks.  So this sounds like a one-time issue, which, once solved to
your satisfaction, should never pop up again, right?

As for setting this up, my suggestion would be to set HOME in the
environment to point to the Cygwin's HOME, and augment that by
whatever you need in the Bash init files.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-08 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-07 20:45 bug#16087: Setting HOME environment variable in Emacs on Windows has side effects SDS
2013-12-08 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-08 19:44   ` bug#16087: " SDS
2013-12-08 20:09     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-12-08 21:14       ` SDS
2013-12-09  3:43         ` Eli Zaretskii

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