> On Aug 1, 5:51 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
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>
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> gmail.com> wrote:

>> paul.mead wrote:

>>> On Aug 1, 9:38 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>>> gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> paul.mead wrote:

>>>>> On Jul 31, 11:33 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>>>>> gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>> paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:

>>>>>>> On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:

>>>>>>>> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
>>>>>>>> being ignored.
>>>>>>>> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
>>>>>>>> paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
>>>>>>>> using --debug-init and it reports no errors.
>>>>>>>> I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
>>>>>>>> fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
>>>>>>>> or scripts which could be running instead.
>>>>>>>> Close to my wits' end. Can you help?
>>>>>>>> Thanks

>>>>>>> Additional information - running M-x load-file ~/.emacs loads the init
>>>>>>> file perfectly, it just doesn't load when I start emacs.

>>>>>> Do you mean that if you start with
>>>>>>    emacs -Q
>>>>>> then the M-x load-file ~/.emacs works?

>>>>> No, I just srart with
>>>>>       emacs
>>>>> but loading the ~/.emacs file manually sets the config up ok.

>>>> If you start with

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>>>>    emacs

>

>>>> instead of

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>>>>    emacs -Q

>

>>>> then there is the possibility that something in your site-start.el or
>>>> default.el changes HOME.

>

>>> Just tried that option - I get a message "Unknown option `-Q'

>

>> That means you are running a quite old version of Emacs. Maybe the best
>> way to proceed would be to upgrade your Emacs (if that is possible)?

>

>>> Using emacs -q has the usual effect (in my case no different to using
>>> just emacs)

>

>>> Using getenv, I can see that my HOME environment variable is reporting
>>> corrcetly as /home/paul. I can't find how to get the value of user-
>>> init-file.

>

>>> I don't know if this is relevant - I tried to run Customize and change
>>> a value in there. When I tried to save changed is gave me an error
>>> message "Saving settings from "emacs -q" would overwrite existing
>>> customizations" - that suggests that I am using emacs -q to start, but
>>> I'm not. There are no aliases set, is there anywhere else that a
>>> configuration file could be hiding?

>
> OK, I've checked on the cygwin package list and there is a newer
> version already compiled - 22.1.3 which is probably near enough
> (assuming that the current stable version is 22.2). I've installed
> that. When I run emacs now I get the following error:
>
> ("emacs")
> command-line: Cannot open load file: warnings
>
> I also can't get outline mode to work, so I've had to revert to the
> earlier version (21.2.1) for now as at least I can keep working with
> that.