Re: init file help

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

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.