Re: Emacs 27.1 init file not loading

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, May 20 2021, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I recently switched from Ubuntu to XUbuntu and in the process lost
> Emacs 27.2. The standard repo only had 26.3, so I went looking for
> alternative locations and landed here:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~kelleyk/+archive/ubuntu/emacs
>
> That only had 27.1, but I figured "How different could it be?" As it
> turns out, it's different in one pretty significant way. Running just
> "emacs" from the command line, it fails to find/load
> ~/.config/emacs/init.el.

You may want to read:

(info "(emacs) Find Init")

Basically, check to make sure there's no `~.emacs.el`, `~.emacs` or 
`~/.emacs.d/init.el`.

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Joost Kremers
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