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From: "Jody M. Klymak" <jklymak@coas.oregonstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Emacs newbie - Syntax Highlighting and Indentation
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:22:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uoevezj2r.fsf@coas.oregonstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bp3jrp$rgb$1@news.net.uni-c.dk


Hello David,

David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.net> writes:

> Thanks to everyone. As an aside, let me just mention that emacs for
> windows must somehow be cygwin-aware. When I start emacs from a normal
> Windows command prompt or from a shortcut, it saves .emacs in c:\
> But if I start emacs from cygwin (no, I do not have emacs for cygwin
> installed, it _is_ the same emacs I am starting from cygwin, that I
> started from the command prompt and the desktop just before), it saves
> .emacs in c:\cygwin\home\david\

I think you'll find that if you set the environment variable HOME
(under Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment Variables)
that you will get the same effect starting emacs outside of cygwin.  

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq3.html#startup

Cheers,  Jody

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-14 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-14 15:52 Emacs newbie - Syntax Highlighting and Indentation David Rasmussen
2003-11-14 17:13 ` Uwe Siart
2003-11-14 17:48 ` Jiri Pejchal
2003-11-14 18:08 ` Michael M Mason
2003-11-14 18:20 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-15 14:18   ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-15 15:08     ` Artur Hefczyc
     [not found] ` <david.rasmussen@gmx.net>
2003-11-14 19:07   ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-15  1:11   ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-14 22:13 ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-14 22:22   ` Jody M. Klymak [this message]
2003-11-15  9:47   ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-17 13:39   ` Kevin Dziulko
     [not found] ` <mailman.86.1068840578.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-14 21:33   ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-11-14 22:01     ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-14 23:15   ` David Rasmussen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.117.1068862385.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-15 11:06       ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-15 12:43         ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-11-15 12:47           ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-15 15:09 ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-15 16:50   ` Artur Hefczyc

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