From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: does emacs look for dotemacs in ~/.emacs.d? Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:50:23 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <877ixn3oow.fsf@hans.local.net> References: <1164178448.385463.99030@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164181873 28530 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 07:51:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 08:51:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmmsv-0004YF-4D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:51:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmmsu-00045b-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:51:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmmsK-0003fP-DU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:50:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmmsI-0003cc-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:50:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmmsI-0003cH-99 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.177] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GmmsI-0004No-4s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:50:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.61.162] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwpI-1GmmsG2MNk-0000ig; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:50:29 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4629B72CF6; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:50:24 +0100 (CET) Original-To: allisfree@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1164178448.385463.99030@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> (allisfree@gmail.com's message of "21 Nov 2006 22\:54\:08 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 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:38879 Archived-At: allisfree@gmail.com writes: > I recently checkout and compile emacs myself, it doesn't load the > dotemacs file if it only in ~/.emacs.d. But I remembered it used to > look for dotemacs in ~/.emacs.d by default. I thought I had read this also somewhere, but ... > > need special hack? ... in the NEWS file for Emacs 22 it says only it is looking for init.el. ** Init file changes If the init file ~/.emacs does not exist, Emacs will try ~/.emacs.d/init.el or ~/.emacs.d/init.elc. You can also put the shell init file .emacs_SHELL under ~/.emacs.d. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany