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Re: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.


From: Suvayu Ali
Subject: Re: Please Help me to find the .emacs file.
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:04:48 +0100
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On 02/03/10 07:29 PM, pkrakesh wrote:
I am new to Emacs. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and using Emacs 22 GTK. I
cannot able to find neither ~/.emacs file nor ~/.emacs.d/init.el in my
home folder. Where can I find the above file ? Anyone please help me.
Thanks.


If you are trying to find it with nautilus, you won't be able to find it. In any *nix system filenames starting with a dot are hidden by default. To use nautilus to find your .emacs, tick "show hidden files" from the "View" menu.

The path for your .emacs file is /home/<username>/.emacs

HTH

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