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"arthur.chereau" <arthur.chereau@voila.fr> writes:

>> What do you see when you do `C-h v user-init-file'?
>
> It's undefined if .emacs is in ~/.emacs.d/, and if I put 2 .emacs (one
> in ~/ and one in ~/.emacs.d/), it always says "/home/arthur/.emacs".
>
> site-start.el is: (setq user-init-file "/home/arthur/.emacs.d/.emacs")
>
> So I think I'm missing something with site-start.el but can't figure
> out what.

Hmm, it doesn't work for me either.  It looks like a bug to me unless
someone has a better explanation.

Another way to solve it would be to just alias the emacs command:

   alias emacs='emacs -q -l ~/.emacs/.emacs'