Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: Lennart Borgman (gmail)Lennart Borgman (gmail) Date: Apr 30, 2008 09:46
DeSoya wrote:
> It seems as though my init.el file has disappeared. I can't open it in
> emacs due to the error from the bad coding system. I can't find
> the .el file using either cygwin or windows. I tried reinstalling but
> predictably that didn't work. Is there any way that I can either find
> and delete this init file or is there any way I can load using the -q
> option through windows? I'm not using the command line since my cygwin
> install doesn't seem to like the tar.gz file that I tried to use
> before giving up and getting the windows .zip.
Just start Emacs with
emacs -Q
(note the uppercase Q). Then in Emacs do
C-x C-f ~/.emacs.d/init.el
to try to open the file. Or you can do
M-: (file-truename "~/.emacs.d/init.el")
to see where it is.
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