[Discuss] Things in Hidden, Magic . Files

[Kent Borg]

Short version: Where are all the places to put things to change emacs's 
behavior?

Longer version: I am an emacs person, programming in Python mostly these 
days. So the other day I thought I should get modern (always a risk) and 
get emacs to do clever tab-completion and stuff. I tried installing elpy.

It has its advantages, it has its drawbacks, but then I stumbled on a 
*big* problem: source code debugging with pdb quit working. Emacs used 
to open another pane and put an arrow next to the line about to be 
executed. No longer. Naturally I suspect elpy.

So I did my best to uninstall it. And uninstall the apt-get stuff I 
installed to make elpy happy.

My source code debugging is still not fixed.

I try debugging as another user and that does work. I try hiding my 
.emacs file and .emacs.d directory in another directory, and it is still 
not working.

Running Debian 9.

Ideas?

Thanks,

-kb