Hello, I use cygwin and installed emacs-22.3. The first several lines of my .emacs file is list bellow: (tool-bar-mode nil) (scroll-bar-mode nil) (set-background-color "black") (set-foreground-color "white") (set-cursor-color "green") (set-mouse-color "blue") (partial-completion-mode t) (server-start) And error reported with "emacs --debug-init": Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "The directory /tmp/emacs27953 is unsafe") signal(error ("The directory /tmp/emacs27953 is unsafe")) error("The directory %s is unsafe" "/tmp/emacs27953") server-ensure-safe-dir("/tmp/emacs27953") server-start() eval-buffer(# nil "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/jixu/cygwin/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 422 load-with-code-conversion("/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/jixu/cygwin/.emacs" "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/jixu/cygwin/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) #[nil "พ Æ=ƒÇÈQ‚A É=ƒ3ÊÇËÌ#ƒ#͂AÊÇËÎ#ƒ/ςA͂A Ð=ƒ=тAÇÒQÓÔ\nӉ#ˆ Ó=ƒiÕÖ×ÇØQ!\"Ô\fӉ#ˆ Ó=ƒh\n) Ù !ÚšÛ !‰ÜP$Ý$!ƒŠ$‚•Ý !ƒ” ‚•ˉÞ \"Ğßà #בג!ˆ *%?ฝË&ÔãӉ#))‡" [init-file-user system-type user-init-file-1 user-init-file otherfile source ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/.emacs" "^_emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/_emacs" vax-vms "sys$login:.emacs" "/.emacs" t load expand-file-name "init" file-name-as-directory "/.emacs.d" file-name-extension "elc" file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default" alt inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-screen] 7]() command-line() normal-top-level() Thanks a lot! Regards xujian