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Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Inside Emacs, you can type C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET and you will be
>> looking at the right file.
>
> On SuSE Linux ~/.emacs loads ~/.gnu-emacs; thus please edit
> ~/.gnu-emacs if you want to add own customizations.

Do you know why?

It seems like a somewhat stu^Hrange decision.  It makes it much more
cumbersome to give people advice here -- especially if other
distributors get "creative" too and all them make up gratuitous names
for '~/.emacs'.