What to do if I cannot find my emacs init file?

Question

I am trying to add haskell-mode to emacs by following these instructions:

http://doc.gnu-darwin.org/haskell-mode/installation-guide.html

This involves that I

Answer 1

To open your emacs init file, type M-: (find-file user-init-file) RET. If you only want to see its path, you can use C-h v user-init-file RET.