emacs 25 doesn't load my .emacs config file

Question

Fedora 24

emacs 25

I have installed Fedora 24 and installed emacs 25 that comes with Fedora.

Before I was using Fedora 22 with emacs 24.3.1 and had my .emacs file in ~/.emacs in the root of my home directory. Emacs would load that without any problem.

Now that I am using emacs 25 my .emacs doesn't load anymore. Just wondering has anything changed with it, to get it to load my .emacs file. My .emacs is in my ~/.emacs of my home directory.

Many thanks for any suggestions,

Answer 1

Is it .emacs "file"?

The way to place .emacs "file" in the home directory is obsolete, placing .emacs.d "directory" in the home directory and placing init.el "file" in it is considered as modern customization I will.

Because by placing the init.el file it makes it possible

• to byte compile. (Byte compile as init.elc)
• to manage changes to the .emacs.d by git easy.
• ...

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Find-Init.html#Find-Init