[OS X Emacs] Where should I look for .emacs (mentioned in help for Emacs) ?

[John Mignault]

Aquamacs will read an existing dot emacs in the usual location if it
exists, however. --j

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Peter West <lists at pbw.id.au> wrote:

> You can turn on the display of hidden files in Finder with the commands
>
> $ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
> $ killall Finder
>
> Turn them off again with the same couple of commands, changing the TRUE to
> FALSE.
>
> I've written shell scripts to do just this.
>
> Did you read this in the Aquamacs manual?
>
> "We recommend that user customizations be placed in Preferences.el in the
> Library folder (see Section 6.2). The usual /.emacsfile is still loaded for
> compatibility."
>
> Per-user Preferences.el is in "~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs"
>
> Peter West
> "...and behold, something greater than Jonah is here."
>
> > On 26 Feb 2015, at 6:02 am, Thomas Käufl <kaeufl at online.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> Am 25.2.2015 um 16:39 schrieb Christian Hoffmann <
> christian at echoffmann.ch>:
> >>
> >> Maybe stupid question :-(
> >> But I need to know the file corresponding to  .emacs, emacs.d, etc
> mentioned in help for Emacs.
> >
> > the file is „.emacs“ (and invisible when using the
> > finder). It is in your home directory. „.emacs.d“ is a
> > directory also in your home directory.
> >
> > Using Emacs you can visit „.emacs“ and the files in
> > „.emacs.d“ in the standard way. Enter C-x C-f and
> > then in the minibuffer the name. With C-x C-w you
> > can copy „.emacs“ use a name like dot-emacs in order
> > to get the copy visible in the finder.
> >
> > Thomas Käufl
> >
> >
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