Re: Does Carbon Emacs ignore ~/.emacs ?

[BK]

kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote ...

> So type C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET from within Emacs, put in the following
> two lines, and then see for yourself:
> 
>     (message "Hi there, this is .emacs speaking.")
>     (sit-for 4)
> 
> Now you have 4 seconds to see if the file is being read.

thanks, but I wanted to make sure that Carbon Emacs is *supposed* to
read ~/.emacs and thus if it doesn't, then this must have some other
reason.

Knowing that Carbon Emacs works for others as expected helps me a
great deal further, thanks.

rgds
bk