Re: Emacs doesn't load .emacs

[Hendrik Bilges]

Am Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:17:02 -0500 schrieb Lowell Gilbert:

> Or is the problem that you aren't intending to use that option, and
> don't know how it is getting set?  In that case, you need to look at
> how you are invoking emacs, and see where the option is creeping in.

Yes, that is the problem. I checked 

$ alias
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

and then

$ type emacs
tux69_ emacs is /usr/bin/emacs
file /usr/bin/emacs
/usr/bin/emacs: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/emacs'
$ file /etc/alternatives/emacs
/etc/alternatives/emacs: symbolic link to `/usr/bin/emacs21-x'
$ file /usr/bin/emacs21-x
/usr/bin/emacs21-x: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
stripped

I now have no more clue what to look for.