[ESS] .emacs file seems not fully operative since upgrade from 22.3 to 24.3

[Rodney Sparapani]

Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> Ah yes,  sure. 
>
>   > However, I can't really recommend that approach.  You might be better
>   > served by defining the HOME environment variable to be C:/DATA/
>
> Actually my emacs (23.1 on debian) doesn't default to home anymore. In
> my case with emacs -q settles in ~/Documents/ for some reason. And this
> is quite recent behavior.
>
> Vitalie.
>   
Did you build it yourself or did you use a Debian package for emacs?
The reason that I ask is that Debain does weird stuff with the load-path,
etc.  I only use packages for applications that I don't understand.
That way, the weird configuration doesn't bother me since I don't know
any better.

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