Re: Gnu emacs under Windows: .emacs and _emacs and savehist

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 11.07.2007 um 16:10 schrieb Murray Eisenberg:
>
> > Jason Rumney wrote:
> > >  .emacs is the
> > > standard name for the init file....
> >
> > So why in the world to the emacs docs simply refer to the file as 
> > "init" throughout instead of saying ".emacs"??
>
> GNU Emacs, I think, either loads ~/.emacs or default.el, could be the 
> latter has to reside in a directory ~/.emacs.d (or in load-path?) or is 
> meant for a world with files that don't start with `.´, could be this 
> all is only valid in some UNIX and only for GNU Emacs 22 ...


See

   M-: (info "(emacs) Init File")

There can be 3 initialization files, executed in this order

   site-start.el
   .emacs
   default.el