From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using tramp from Cygwin Emacs Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:17:00 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <877hu4jqab.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <4AF2B6E1.7010202@gmx.de> <83hbt8bxv0.fsf@gnu.org> <87ws24k6o5.fsf@newsguy.com> <87iqdojzok.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257477604 19863 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2009 03:20:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:20:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 04:19:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N6FMj-0000CO-Jy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:19:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41978 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6FMi-0003E8-Re for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:19:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N6FKQ-0000m7-Bq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N6FKK-0000da-Iz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37375 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6FKK-0000dO-8z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:17:28 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34490) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N6FKJ-0001cx-G3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:17:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N6FKE-0007sk-RD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:17:22 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:17:22 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:17:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qp/sJd69E/frBGt2rpqdrPVcjpQ= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69532 Archived-At: "KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)" writes: >> >> You never said what OS this is taking place on, but I guess a windows >> of some sort? If so, the OS may have a different idea of $HOME than >> does cygwin. >> >> Have you set the HOME variable on windows? On Cygwin? >> >> I guess you could try a windows command shell and type `echo %home%' >> and a cygwin bash shell and type `echo $HOME' to see if they match. >> >> (If you don't know how to set it on windows ask back to this thread.) > > Cygwin runs on something besides Windows? I didn't bother to mention it > because I thought it was obvious. I just assumed it ran on macs too but now you mention it, I don't think I've every noticed any mention of that. > I'm putting the .ssh directory in my Cygwin $HOME. The Windows %HOME% > does not match this, but that shouldn't matter. You're right with cygwin emacs, but someone mentioned you might want to use Native emacs-23, in which case it is likely to be a problem. or at least I recall having trouble with ssh for that reason.