If I do not set the environment variable HOME, and if I have a file called .emacs in C:\, neither Emacs 22 nor Emacs 23 will start. Instead, I get a pop-up dialogue telling me of a "fatal error".
If I rename .emacs to _emacs, then both Emacs 22 and Emacs 23 run, but neither acknowledges the existence of the file (I can tell because the customizations are not read in). If I set HOME to anything, *including* C:\, there is no problem finding .emacs. This was not a problem with Emacs 21.3. In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2006-04-22 on YAMALOK X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.1) --cflags -O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686 -lm -ffast-math -IC:/gnuwin32/include_emacs -IC:/gnuwin32/lib -IC:/gnuwin32/src --ldflags -s ' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: C locale-coding-system: cp1252 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: encoded-kbd-mode: t tooltip-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <re port-emacs-bug> Recent messages: (C:\emacs-22\emacs\bin\emacs.exe) Loading encoded-kb...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading emacsbug... Loading regexp-opt...done Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug