And then ran

    HOME=$PWD emacs .emacs


Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> <close the *GNU Emacs* frame>
>
> I don't have any such frame at this point.  I have a single frame
> divided into 2 windows, one of them showing *GNU Emacs*, the other
> showing *scratch*.

> Did you try reproducing outside your home directory, after replacing
> "~marc/emacs/k" with something explicit, and then using "emacs -q -l
> .emacs"?  Because this is what I did, I cannot afford overwriting my
> personal .emacs file.

When doing it this way, only one frame gets created, I guess because
~/.emacs is loaded earlier than -l foo.el.