bash 2.04 can't complete ~/name if $HOME set to c:/users/foo?

[David Starks-Browning]

On Monday 1 Oct 01, Matt Landau writes:
> My environment has HOME set to c:/users/matt, but bash seems to insist on 
> converting this to a cygwin-style path, /c/users/matt.  This confuses the 
> hell out of programs like Emacs that don't understand cygwin paths, of 
> course.

More precisely, Cygwin sets HOME to a *POSIX*-style path.  Cygwin is a
POSIX emulation layer.  Note that it only does this with certain
environment variables that it knows about, like HOME and PATH.

If your non-Cygwin application (like Emacs) requires HOME be set in a
non-Cygwin way, then don't start emacs from your Cygwin bash shell.

If you must invoke your emacs command from the Cygwin bash shell, you
could put the emacs command in a windows .bat file, and invoke that
file from Cygwin bash.  In the .bat file, your HOME variable should be
set the way Emacs needs it.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
David


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