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I want to submit an evil bug report as described in https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#bug-reports

  1. Test the bug in a clean Emacs environment without any additional packages loaded (besides Evil itself). You can easily get such an environment by executing either make emacs (for X) or make terminal (for terminal mode) in Evil's source directory. If your bug is related to some other package, try to load only this package from the clean environment after using M-x package-initialize first.

After testing the bug on clean Emacs as described in step 2, what is the procedure for restoring Emacs to how it was before the test?

I am using Emacs 25.2.1 with Evil Spacemacs and Ivy on Linux.

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You seem to be misunderstanding something there. Running make emacs or make terminal spawns a separate Emacs instance that only loads up Evil from its source directory. This instance doesn't use your own config and doesn't modify it either. Once you close it that test environment it is completely gone.

The only way you could achieve what you've described is by deliberately ignoring the instructions, deleting your init files and using that setup for testing. I recommend against such drastic action as it's rarely needed if ever, a non-destructive way of achieving the same is moving the files to a different location and moving them back afterwards.

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  • Thanks for clearing that up. Where are the "make emacs" instructions? Or what directory do I run "make emacs" from?
    – wolfv
    Commented Aug 3, 2017 at 5:33
  • To quote from the instructions, "in Evil's source directory". If you haven't done so already, fetch a copy with git clone https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil.
    – wasamasa
    Commented Aug 3, 2017 at 5:41
  • How to install org-mode on the clean Emacs environment? After cloning evil and "make emacs", Emacs started and I tried "M-x package-initialize" but it didn't do anything. There is no InitFile in the evil directory.
    – wolfv
    Commented Aug 3, 2017 at 15:31
  • Org is bundled with Emacs, so this isn't needed. Just open the file and M-x org-mode.
    – wasamasa
    Commented Aug 3, 2017 at 15:58

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