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Where is the .emacs file?

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Mar 15, 202679760 views

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I downloaded Emacs 23.1 from GNU's FTP site. I untarred it and built it after configuring. I do not find the .emacs file in my home directory or anywhere in my system! Am I missing something?

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Or, as a much simpler way (as pointed out in the comment), Ctrl+H, v (describe-variable) will bring up nice output describing the variable and its value, like so: Documentation: File name, including directory, of user's initialization file. If the f…

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