>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:


   > I don't know, because it works for me.  Did you try in "emacs -Q"?


I also  tried out emacs -q and it works as expected, but when I start
emacs 


with a .emacs file which is empty the behavior of dired changes, so
something is loaded but what?

According to man emacs: emacs -q just does not load the init file

So why does not emacs -q and an empty .emacs file show the same behavior?