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

C-x C-f ~/.emacs will take you to it.

See the Emacs manual, nodes Init File and Find Init.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

You can also create it yourself, if I'm not wrong installing emacs doesn't create automatically the file all the times. Just type in the terminal with your text editor (vim, vi, nano, etc) of preference:

vim ~/.emacs

And edit it the way you want :-)