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On a computer I have emacs installed. I wanted to install emacs on another computer without administrator rights.

So I copied all the directory from the computer on which emacs is already installed to the other computer. I add the .emacs with C-x f ~/.emacs

When I open emacs again the file .emacs is not read and there is an error message :

mapc: Opening directory: No such file or directory, C:/Program Files/GNU Emacs 26.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d

I know emacs is not installed there. (this is the path where emacs was installed on the computer from where I copied the directory)

How can I say to emacs the right path when it opens?

Drew
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wind waver
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  • Looks like you are on Windows. Can you indicate which Emacs exactly you installed, and how? – tripleee Oct 07 '20 at 05:29
  • Does the folder C:/Program Files/GNU Emacs 26.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d really exist on the target computer? Perhaps there was a problem during the copy – BrunoO Oct 07 '20 at 06:17

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It looks like your .emacs file does in fact get loaded but that something in there causes the error you see. After that error, the rest of the file does not get evaluated.

I suggest bisecting your .emacs file until you're identified the culprit: delete half of your .emacs file and see if the error persists. If so, delete half of that, and so on, until you get to a point where everything works. Then add in half of the last half you deleted, and so on, until you get to the part that causes the error.

Thomas
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