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Thanks for this explanation. I’m obviously in a quiet backwater missing sensible updated ways of doing things. What .emacs.d/ is - that’s very sensible. Is there a good way of catching-up? Goods info-sources? The first date I can find in my .emacs is 23 years ago, for a function which inserted a backquote because the old 286 laptop computer I used as a serial terminal while sitting out on the lawn didn’t have a backquote character. So maybe I need to be more community-minded... > On 27 Mar 2023, at 08:37, Anthony Williams via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 26/03/2023 13:43, Tom via list wrote: >> As I mentioned elsewhere I've been playing with Lisp and I thought I'd have a >> crack at getting Slime (an Emacs extension/add on for Lisp) and in setting it up >> I notice it asks for mods to be made to .emacs which I expected to find in my >> home directory (I've played with Emac recently) only to discover .emacs.d >> directory which I presume is some modern repository for all things emacsy. Do I >> create a .emacs file in here or just in my home directory? >> > As others have said, you *can* create a .emacs file in your home directory, which > overrides the .emacs.d contents, but the recommended practice is to create > .emacs.d/init.el, and put anything you would put in .emacs in there instead. > > Your customizations (from customize-group/customize-variable) end up in > .emacs.d/custom.el rather than cluttering your .emacs file. > > Cheers, > > Anthony > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > FAQ: https://www.dcglug.org.uk/faq/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG FAQ: https://www.dcglug.org.uk/faq/