Re: won't load .emacs init file

[paul.d.mead@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
> being ignored.
>
> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
> paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
> using --debug-init and it reports no errors.
>
> I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
> fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
> or scripts which could be running instead.
>
> Close to my wits' end. Can you help?
>
> Thanks

Additional information - running M-x load-file ~/.emacs loads the init
file perfectly, it just doesn't load when I start emacs.