Re: [h-e-w] My Emacs behavs strange after installing Cygwin

[Harald Maier]

"Rasmussen Jens (ICM MP P SW 2 AAL)" <address@hidden> writes:

> I have been running Emacs flawlessly on my Win2K machine until I
> installed Cygwin. Suddenly the .emacs file had to be placed in the
> Cygwin root folder & my Recent Files (recentf.el) does not work any
> more. Why?

Just a dark shot. Maybe you have not specified a HOME environment
variable. You can create the variable in the system settings dialog. 
Here an example how it is defined on my system:

   Name : HOME
   Value: f:/home/maierh

Harald