- When you start Emacs, it reads the file @file{~/.emacs} in your home
-directory. You can use this file to initialize and customize Emacs to
-your liking. This file should contain lisp-code. You can customize your
-@file{.emacs} file to create new
-menus, disable menus, change key bindings, enable a minor mode, etc. Any
-kind of customization affects
-only a particular Emacs job that you do them in. If you want to save
-your customizations `permanently' i.e. for future use also, you have to
-put it in your @samp{.emacs} file. After you make changes to your
-@file{.emacs} file and save it, the changes will be effective only after
-you start Emacs again i.e. for a new Emacs process. To try out some of
-the examples in this section, highlight that region and evaluate the
-region by giving the command @kbd{M-x eval-region}. You will be able to
-see the results of your customizations in that Emacs session only
-(@pxref{Lisp Eval,,,xemacs,XEmacs User's Manual}).
+When you start Emacs, it reads the file @file{~/.xemacs/init.el} in the
+@file{.xemacs/} subdirectory of your home directory. You can use this
+file to initialize and customize Emacs to your liking. This file should
+contain lisp-code. You can customize your @file{init.el} file to create
+new menus, disable menus, change key bindings, enable a minor mode,
+etc. Any kind of customization affects only a particular Emacs job that
+you do them in. If you want to save your customizations `permanently'
+i.e. for future use also, you have to put it in your @samp{init.el}
+file. After you make changes to your @file{init.el} file and save it, the
+changes will be effective only after you start Emacs again i.e. for a
+new Emacs process. To try out some of the examples in this section,
+highlight that region and evaluate the region by giving the command
+@kbd{M-x eval-region}. You will be able to see the results of your
+customizations in that Emacs session only (@pxref{Lisp
+Eval,,,xemacs,XEmacs User's Manual}).