Re: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress)

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Uwe.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 13:07:37 +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:


>    > I don't know, because it works for me.  Did you try in "emacs -Q"?


> I also  tried out emacs -q and it works as expected, but when I start
> emacs 

Please don't confuse "emacs -Q" with "emacs -q" - they're not the same.

> with a .emacs file which is empty the behavior of dired changes, so
> something is loaded but what?

> According to man emacs: emacs -q just does not load the init file

> So why does not emacs -q and an empty .emacs file show the same behavior?

With "-q", you're loading site-start.el, should it exist, but not your
.emacs.

With "-Q", you don't even load site-start.el.

Hope that helps!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).