Re: have installed cygwin, & "its" emacs. dired shows only subtree, no "up"

[Martin Fischer]

(David Combs) writes:

> Installed cygwin on my wife's pc.  Told it to grab, among
> other things, emacs.
>
> I run emacs, hit C-x d (dired), and shows me only
> (I forget now) /home/....   With three files, (bash profile,
> and two .xxxxrc files, and NO directories).
>
> Seems that that's my "universe".
>
> So as to go "up" in the dir-tree, I hit the "^", but
> does nothing.

Hi,

you may also try to feed the dired prompt with somthing like "c:/" or
"/cygdrive/c" or "/c".

Cheers

Martin
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