Re: [h-e-w] setting HOME

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:34:02 -0700
> From: Norman Fuchs <address@hidden>
> 
> I've been using an older version of emacs for some time now (under 
> Windows XP), and I have used auctex (MikTeX) without much trouble.  
> However, I noticed that there is a preview-latex system now available.  
> So, I downloaded the pre-compiled version of Emacs + AucTeX
> 
> emacs+auctex-w32-2006-05-14.zip
> 
> from the website 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/download-for-windows.html.
> 
> After unpacking and overwriting my old emacs files, I tried to run it, 
> but when the emacs window came up, there was an error message
> 
> Error (initialization): User  has no home directory

Ask the person who provides the precompiled binary of Emacs on the AUC
TeX site to upload a newer version: this bug was fixed a month ago
(May 19th, to be exact).

> Can someone help me find a way to set this (and possibly other required) 
> environment variables so I can avoid the error message?  As a kludge, I 
> inserted this line at the top of my .emacs file
> 
> (setenv "HOME" "C:/")
> 
> but of course the error comes up anyway, since it's generated before the 
> .emacs file is read. 

Try setting the HOME variable outside Emacs.

> Furthermore, the README file for this distribution refers to an INSTALL 
> file, but there is none.

Again, please contact the author of the binary package for Windows on
that site.