Re: init file help

[DeSoya <nathan.doyle26@gmail.com>]

On Apr 30, 10:46 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I can't open the program using the command line for some reason. I
tried the "emacs -q" command in both cygwin and dos and get the
following error:

ndoyle@CMAXP /cygdrive/c/emacs/emacs-22.1/bin
$ emacs -q
bash: emacs: command not found