does emacs look for dotemacs in ~/.emacs.d?

does emacs look for dotemacs in ~/.emacs.d?

[allisfree]

 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.

need special hack?

Re: does emacs look for dotemacs in ~/.emacs.d?

[Dieter Wilhelm]

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

Re: does emacs look for dotemacs in ~/.emacs.d?

[Tim X]

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.
>
> need special hack?
>

I seem to remember reading in the NEWS file of current CVS emacs
(emacs 22) that it will look in .emacs.d for your .emacs. I don't
remember this functionality in earlier versions.

HTH

Tim

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