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In article <1138772912.268515.75560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, 
pranavtiwari@gmail.com wrote:
> On my Unix machine, emacs is not loading .emacs.
> 
> If I start emacs as:
> 
>  % emacs -u $USER
> 
> emacs starts up correctly with my .emacs loaded. However, if I start it
> without -u option, it ignores my .emacs.
> 
> Can someone suggest what the problem could be?
Maybe emacs is aliased to something else?
For instance, I have df aliased. I can see it by
$ alias df
alias df='df -h'

-- 
Maarten Bergvelt