won't load .emacs init file

[paul....@googlemail.com]

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

[paul....@googlemail.com]

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

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Do you mean that if you start with

emacs -Q

then the M-x load-file ~/.emacs works?

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

paul....@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.

Reported only by your shell, or also by Emacs? (`getenv')

Is the value of `user-init-file' correct?

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

paul.mead wrote:
> On Jul 31, 11:33 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
> <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:

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

If you start with

emacs

instead of

emacs -Q

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

[paul.mead]

On Aug 1, 9:38 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"

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

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?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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)?

[paul.mead]

On Aug 1, 5:51 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"

Thanks, I'll give that a try. Never compiled anything under cygwin,
should be a learning experience ;-)

[paul mead]

test..

[paul.mead]

On Aug 1, 5:51 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"

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.

[paul.mead]

FIXED!

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.

Cheers for suggestions...
Paul

[paul.mead]

Sorry, that's:
set USER=MEAD8982