Re: Eager macro-expansion failure

[Evan Aad]

> Look for files named default.el or site-start.el in any of the load-path 
> directories.  A good starting point is in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/.

My system has no emacs/ directory under /usr/share/
I searched my entire computer for files named default.el and
site-start.el, as well as for files or folders named site-init. The
searches came out empty handed.

> tell here which distro you use, and someone will probably be able to tell you 
> where to look for site-init files.

I installed emacs by following the instructions given here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#macos
namely, by executing "brew install --cask emacs" in the Terminal.

> The above suggests something in one of your ELPA-installed packages is using 
> a macro passing it 2 arguments whereas the macro requires at least 3 args.

How can I find which macro and which ELPA-installed package is causing
the trouble?


> > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 15:12:43 +0200
> >
> > There is no init file in any of the locations mentioned in the first
> > paragraph of the following article:
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Init-File.html
> > or in the second and third paragraphs of the following article:
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Find-Init.html
> >
> > In other words, there is no file named ~/.emacs, ~/.emacs.el,
> > ~/.emacs.d/init.el, ~/.config/emacs/init.el
>
> I'm talking about site-init files, not your user-specific init files
> (which you said you didn't have).
>
> If there's a difference between "emacs -Q" and just "emacs", there
> _must_ be some init file involved, and if you don't have user init
> files, then there _must_ be some site-init file.
>
> You need to examine your Emacs installation and the documentation of
> the distro you use to find out where to look for these files.  Or,
> failing that, tell here which distro you use, and someone will
> probably be able to tell you where to look for site-init files.
>
> > Furthermore, my user-emacs-directory variable is set to ~/.emacs.d/
> > and there is no file named .emacs, .emacs.el, init.el, default.el or
> > site-start.el under this directory nor under the directories ~/ and
> > ~/.config
> >
> > Moreover, in the directory /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp there is
> > just a single item: a directory named libidn/ and inside it there are
> > just two items, named idna.el and punycode.el
> >
> > Could there be an init file somewhere else?
>
> Yes.
>
> > If so, is there an easy way to find it? The value of my load-path
> > variable is very long. It would be very tedious to visit every
> > directory listed there manually, and I'm not savvy enough to write
> > code to automate this task.
>
> Look for files named default.el or site-start.el in any of the
> load-path directories.  A good starting point is in
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/.
>