Re: won't load .emacs init file

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

paul.d.mead@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?