Re: Building emacs 22.3 with djgpp 2.04 beta/Windows XP SP3 MCE 2005

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Allan <mu8ja0i@earthlink.net>
> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:41:02 -0600
> 
> >> To install your edits, invoke [State] and choose the Set operation 
> >> Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory and its parents
> >> basic-save-buffer-2: c:/Documents and Settings/User0/Application
> >> Data/~dosuser/: no such directory
> >
> > When is this error message shown? when you click on [State]?  Also,
> > what is your HOME environment variable set to?  Please give me a
> > complete recipe for reproducing this, so I could see how to fix it.
> The value of `HOME' is "c:\Documents and Settings\User0\Application
> Data". Whenever you try to change the initialization buffer either from
> the startup menu or through the customization group menu you then see a
> menu which allows you to either "set" for the current session or "save"
> for future sessions. When I "save" for future sessions sometimes the
> message differs from the above only that instead of the HOME directory
> it references "d:/emacs-22.3/bin/~dosuser".

I think this is due to some messup with your user name as Emacs sees
it in your setup.  Please tell me what these two commands print:

  M-: (user-login-name) RET
  M-: (user-real-login-name) RET