From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: does emacs look for dotemacs in ~/.emacs.d?
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:50:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ixn3oow.fsf@hans.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164178448.385463.99030@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> (allisfree@gmail.com's message of "21 Nov 2006 22\:54\:08 -0800")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-22 7:50 UTC|newest]
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2006-11-22 6:54 does emacs look for dotemacs in ~/.emacs.d? allisfree
2006-11-22 7:50 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2006-11-22 8:06 ` Tim X
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