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Re: wrong home directory


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:58 PM, hvshare wrote:
> Andy, you were right! HOME was set to the Emacs folder. I replaced it with
> the directory I wanted as my Cygwin home folder and restarted my OS. Now
> /home/helvio/ is my new Cygwin hom

You'd be better off deleting HOME from the Windows environment list
altogether.  Then Cygwin will set it to whatever is in your
/etc/passwd file.

You should also make sure that your Windows Emacs still works.


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