From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File .emacs not read Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:32:10 -0500 Message-ID: <87efoekzwl.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <87lginre22.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20171201110706.GA6022@magellan.machin.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512159088 14285 195.159.176.226 (1 Dec 2017 20:11:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 20:11:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 01 21:11:24 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eKred-0003MX-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 21:11:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKrei-0001l3-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 15:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKr36-0006R8-Af for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:32:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKr32-0006oW-KG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:32:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35003 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKr32-0006o1-Ce for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:32:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eKr2n-0001Ic-Fu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2017 20:32:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:y/S7YQ+lwpQVT7OFSJ47bV2W1qk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115155 Archived-At: Philippe Delavalade writes: > Maybe but I'm using console. So how do you get a *WINDOW* with the warning? Do you mean a window *in emacs*? > > I observed that if I use C-x C-u for instance, emacs asks me if I want to > enable the command for future editing sessions. If I say yes, it asks to > create directory /home/philippe/tmp/~GDM/. When saying yes, it creates > the directory with a .emacs in it with the line > (put 'upcase-region 'disabled nil) > This looks screwy: Why is it choosing this directory? Please report the values of the following variables: user-login-name user-emacs-directory -- Nick