I ran various versions of RH for many years and always had emacs set up so 
that the
emacs command would take me to the file(s) that I had worked on in that dir 
most recently.
Whenever I started a new dir I would do M^x desktop-save and accept the 
current
working dir to store the .emacs.desktop file in.

Under SL4.4 this no longer works. When I start emacs I get the banner page. 
When I
hit a key it takes me to the top of the most recent file, not the place in 
the file
where I was last working.

This isn't specific to 4.4; I have met it under earlier SL versions at, for 
example, ESI.

Can a kind person tell me how to get back the previous behaviour ? My .emacs 
file
is below.

With thanks in advance ...

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;; Red Hat Linux default .emacs initialization file

;; Are we running XEmacs or Emacs?
(defvar running-xemacs (string-match "XEmacs\\|Lucid" emacs-version))

;; Set up the keyboard so the delete key on both the regular keyboard
;; and the keypad delete the character under the cursor and to the right
;; under X, instead of the default, backspace behavior.
(global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char)
(global-set-key [kp-delete] 'delete-char)

;; Always end a file with a newline
(setq require-final-newline t)

;; Stop at the end of the file, not just add lines
(setq next-line-add-newlines nil)

;; Enable wheelmouse support by default
(if (not running-xemacs)
    (require 'mwheel) ; Emacs
  (mwheel-install) ; XEmacs
)

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;added personally from here on

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . 
"-misc-fixed-medium-R-normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1"))

(setq-default latex-mode t)
(setq default-major-mode 'latex-mode)
(setq-default show-paren-mode t)

(defun insert-date ()
  "Insert date at the current cursor position in the current buffer."
  (interactive)
  (insert (format-time-string "%B %d, %Y")))
(define-key ctl-x-map "n" 'insert-date)

; next line added September 17, 2004
(setq tex-dvi-view-command "xmdvi")
; next line added 01-08-03, see p265
(setq tex-dvi-print-command "dvips")
; next two lines added 13-4-01. See p64
(setq-default case-fold-search nil)
(setq-default case-replace nil)
; next line added 27-07-01 from FAQ 29
(setq frame-title-format "%b")
(desktop-load-default)
(setq-default save-place t) ; added February 23, 2007
(desktop-read)
(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
'(auto-compression-mode t nil (jka-compr))
'(current-language-environment "English")
'(default-input-method "rfc1345")
'(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock))
'(show-paren-mode t nil (paren))
'(transient-mark-mode t)
'(uniquify-buffer-name-style (quote forward) nil (uniquify)))

(require 'color-theme)
(color-theme-calm-forest)
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
)

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