Make cygwin home directory to Windows' User Profile

Question

As I am developing Ruby on Rails on a Windows machine, I need to use cygwin to emulate the Unix command prompt. The problem now is that every time when I open the cygwin termina

Answer 1

I was able to change mine by simply setting the HOME environment variable in Windows to C:\Users\MyUsername. When I start Cygwin, now it looks there. This has the added benefit of causing Emacs on regular Win32 (i.e., not via Cygwin) to start in the right place instead of in C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Roaming (and thus looking for .emacs and .emacs.d there)