From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:50:31 +0200 Message-ID: <4694FC47.2010207@gmail.com> References: <1184153377.121400.324780@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1BE114DB-8272-4496-B401-90449E99350D@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184169062 23172 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2007 15:51:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, murray@math.umass.edu To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 11 17:51:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8eSv-0007Wj-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:50:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8eSv-0008OO-6M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:50:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8eSf-0008OH-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8eSd-0008O5-J8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8eSd-0008O2-En for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I8eSc-0007J6-W4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-133-189.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.133.189]:64083 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1I8eSZ-00008U-8K; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:50:36 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070604 Thunderbird/2.0.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <1BE114DB-8272-4496-B401-90449E99350D@Web.DE> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000755-1, 2007-07-11), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.133.189 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1I8eSZ-00008U-8K. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1I8eSZ-00008U-8K 26c8f70714cf013723962516555bbf7d X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45608 Archived-At: 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