From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: init file help Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:46:27 +0200 Message-ID: <4818A263.2000106@gmail.com> References: <50206475-b3f7-47c2-a791-374c8ae4f8dd@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> <9cf2660d-1846-4979-93de-ca36f201d282@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209574034 12983 80.91.229.12 (30 Apr 2008 16:47:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: DeSoya Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 30 18:47:50 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JrFT1-0006BM-LT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:47:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41081 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrFSK-00023x-Oc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:46:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrFS3-00023i-AJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:46:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JrFS0-00023W-Vw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:46:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57558 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrFS0-00023T-Ns for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrFS0-0006ng-HQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-150-27.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.150.27]:65351 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JrFRy-0000qB-7p; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:46:34 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <9cf2660d-1846-4979-93de-ca36f201d282@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080430-1, 2008-04-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.150.27 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1JrFRy-0000qB-7p. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1JrFRy-0000qB-7p fd554dd363e350964d0cb440eb0f590d X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53653 Archived-At: 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.