Norman Fuchs wrote:
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
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.
Furthermore, the README file for this distribution refers to an
INSTALL file, but there is none.
I think you may need a newer version of CVS Emacs:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32#toc12
As you can see the problem was fixed at the end of May. I believe you
can download the latest version of EmacsW32+Emacs and install that over
your current installation to fix your problem.
