> On Aug 5, 9:56 am, "paul.mead" googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 1, 5:51 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"

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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

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>>>>> instead of

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>>>>>    emacs -Q

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

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

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>>> 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)?

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

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>>>> 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.

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>>>> 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?

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>> 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:

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>> ("emacs")
>> command-line: Cannot open load file: warnings

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>> 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.

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> FIXED!
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> Turns out there was some sort of conflict between the user name for
> Windows and the USER variable under cygwin. I just added:
> USER=MEAD8982 to my ~/.profile (my Windows username) and moved .emacs
> to /home/MEAD8982/ and everything started working.
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> Cheers for suggestions...
> Paul