Re: Emacs 27.1 init file not loading

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2021 08:10:09 -0500, Skip Montanaro 
>>>>> <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> said:

    Skip> I recently switched from Ubuntu to XUbuntu and in the process lost
    Skip> Emacs 27.2. The standard repo only had 26.3, so I went looking for
    Skip> alternative locations and landed here:

    Skip> https://launchpad.net/~kelleyk/+archive/ubuntu/emacs

    Skip> That only had 27.1, but I figured "How different could it be?" As it
    Skip> turns out, it's different in one pretty significant way. Running just
    Skip> "emacs" from the command line, it fails to find/load
    Skip> ~/.config/emacs/init.el. If I run it like so:

    Skip> emacs --load ~/.config/emacs/init.el

    Skip> it does load. I can tell that it doesn't load in the normal case
    Skip> because I added a couple calls to (message "...") to start and end the
    Skip> file. They don't show in the minibuffer or the *Messages* buffer
    Skip> unless I use the more explicit command.

What's the value of 'user-init-file' when you run emacs normally
(without the symlink below)? Itʼs possible emacs is looking for
'~/.emacs.d/init.el'.

    Skip> For the time being I just created a symlink from ~/.emacs to
    Skip> ~/.config/emacs/init.el.

Robert
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