From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, murray@math.umass.edu
Subject: Re: Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:50:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4694FC47.2010207@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1BE114DB-8272-4496-B401-90449E99350D@Web.DE>
Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 11.07.2007 um 16:10 schrieb Murray Eisenberg:
>
>> Jason Rumney wrote:
>>> .emacs is the
>>> standard name for the init file....
>>
>> So why in the world to the emacs docs simply refer to the file as
>> "init" throughout instead of saying ".emacs"??
>
> GNU Emacs, I think, either loads ~/.emacs or default.el, could be the
> latter has to reside in a directory ~/.emacs.d (or in load-path?) or is
> meant for a world with files that don't start with `.´, could be this
> all is only valid in some UNIX and only for GNU Emacs 22 ...
See
M-: (info "(emacs) Init File")
There can be 3 initialization files, executed in this order
site-start.el
.emacs
default.el
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-11 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-11 4:04 Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-11 8:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-07-11 11:29 ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-11 11:34 ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-11 14:10 ` Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-11 14:58 ` Vagn Johansen
2007-07-11 15:31 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-07-11 15:50 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3317.1184144075.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-11 14:08 ` Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-11 15:24 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.3344.1184167477.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-11 16:25 ` Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-11 17:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-07-11 18:48 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <mailman.3365.1184179766.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-12 16:52 ` Murray Eisenberg
2007-07-12 17:05 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-07-12 17:09 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <mailman.3405.1184260312.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-12 22:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-12 23:21 ` Drew Adams
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