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Question for Emacs wizards. I found a strange thing which I could not understand after reading the documentation (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Initial-Options.html) and even after reading the startup files, shipped with my Emacs 30.2.

If I use the -q option — Emacs will add site-lisp directories to the load-path. But with -Q option — there are no site-lisp catalogs in the load-path. Why is this happens? :drgn_confused:

Note: the option --no-site-lisp is not used in the both examples. So, as I understood after reading the https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Site_002dwide-Init.html, even with --no-site-file (or -Q) the site-lisp catalogs should be added to the load-path in the both cases :drgn_confused:

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