close their tickets. It feels like reading a different language (which is already what I was doing). That on top of them talking about their own configs and not Spacemacs.

I wasn't able to understand much besides what it was written in the error. It is finding a symbol with no value, apparently. Some said that it could be a parentheses issue, others that a function is beig called before being declared... I have no idea. What I got is the place where dired-quick-sort is, that might or might not be of some help:

file: \~/spacemacs/.emacs.d/layers/+spacemacs/spacemacs-editing/packages.el

(defun spacemacs-editing/init-dired-quick-sort ()
(use-package dired-quick-sort
:defer t
:init
(define-advice dired-noselect (:before (&rest ) quick-sort-setup)
(let ((dired-quick-sort-suppress-setup-warning 'message))
(dired-quick-sort-setup))
(advice-remove 'dired-noselect 'dired-noselect@quick-sort-setup))
:config
(evil-define-key 'normal dired-mode-map "s" 'dired-quick-sort-transient)
;; prevent `evil-collection' from changing this binding
(add-to-list 'evil-collection-binding-overrides
'(search-or-filter :enabled
(lambda (map-sym )
(not (eq map-sym 'dired-mode-map)))))))

After writing this wall of text over several days I realised that I could just make *my* config live in a different folder and let Spacemacs be happy on its default folder. That should fix both problems... Would it, though? Would they really be solved or would I just be pretending they are?

I know I could just close Spacemacs and open it back again. I know I can evaluate buffers without leaving Emacs, including running configurations, which is something I try to do most of the time, but not always. Restarting Emacs without resuming layouts are just too many keystrokes, man, and the error would still be there... lingering and waiting to show its ugly face.

As you can already tell... these two issues are dependent on my stubbornness, heh.

If we imagine the last two paragraph were never written... any idea of how to start solving these two puzzles? I know there is a dedicated Spacemacs subreddit but it doesn't look really active and this is the one I frequent the most. Let me know if this isn't the right place to post my question, please.

Thank you for reading.

TLDR: Wanted to have parallel configs. Changed Spacemacs installation folder. Two errors are present now. One when opening Dired and the other while restarting Spacemacs. Need some guidance to identify why these errors are ocurring.

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