Setting Up Emacs for Windows

Here is a good .el to help emacs recognize cygwin path style
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/download/cygwin-mount.el

to enable
(require 'cygwin-mount)

(cygwin-mount-activate)

There is a problem with the PS1 variable of bash. Emacs doesn't recognize the escape characters for colours. The solution is to add a condition to the bash profile:

if [ $TERM = emacs] ; then

PS1='\u@\h:\W\n$'

fi