Re: won't load .emacs init file

[paul.mead]

On Aug 1, 5:51 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> paul.mead wrote:
> > On Aug 1, 9:38 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
> > <lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> paul.mead wrote:
> >>> On Jul 31, 11:33 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
> >>> <lennart.borg...@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
>
> >>    emacs
>
> >> instead of
>
> >>    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?

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