Not running from a custom path? about .emacs.d HOT 7 CLOSED

Can you paste the error message?

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You would get something like let*: Opening input file: No such file or directory, /home/andrea/.emacs.d/early-init.el
After checking out the project locally and running Emacs from there:
~/p/f/memacs> emacs -q

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After checking out the project locally and running Emacs from there:

Wait, you still have another set of configurations in ~/.emacs.d/? Is that what C-h v user-emacs-directory shows?

Because it does not matter at which directory you run Emacs from, it will look at either ~/.emacs.d/ or ~/.config/emacs (latter for xdg config) for Emacs configurations. If you clone M-EMACS into another directory other than these two, Emacs does not know it.

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Well I ran emacs -q which doesn't try to load anything afaik, the problem is just my local directory not in load path I guess, I'll try it out

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I'm not sure if I correctly understand your situation, but emacs -q is not supposed to load anything.

-q, --no-init-file
  Do not load an init file.

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Yes I know I load your init.el file after a fresh emacs is started and I just do eval-buffer for example

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Oh, I see what you mean. Yep if you only eval-buffer the init.el, it does not know where all the (require init-xx) are located. You need them to be in the load-path

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