title: Changes to emacs init file does not work as intended
body: <p>I'm going to try to make my situation as clear as possible.</p>
  
  <p>Basically, I want to make changes to my <code>.emacs</code> init file so that I can add on new features to emacs, however any changes I make do not change the way emacs operates.</p>
  
  <p>This is what I did. First I <code>cd</code> into my <code>.emacs.d</code> directory, this directory contains the following files (hidden and not hidden) :</p>
  
  <pre><code>ls -a .emacs.d
  
  .    ..    auto-save-list
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see, there is no <code>.emacs</code> init file in this directory, so I made one, and added the following code to it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(global-set-key (kbd "&lt;f10&gt;") 'execute-extended-command)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In this example, I'm simply adding a second-key-binding to a specific command. I've tried adding all kinds of different code to my <code>.emacs</code> file, but still nothing works. Can anyone tell me why, it makes no sense why this shouldn't work...     </p>