Init file(and directory) Quick Access.

Trivia

Sadly, Emacs (unlike Spacemacs, which has spacemacs/find-dotfile) doesn’t have a function to open its own init file, so thousands of users have to write their owns. I’m not different :)

Installation

Using use-package:

(use-package iqa
  :ensure t
  ;; for generated files only
  ;; :init
  ;; (setq iqa-user-init-file (concat user-emacs-directory "init.org"))
  :config
  (iqa-setup-default))

or just put iqa.el to load-path and

(require 'iqa)

Info

iqa-find-user-init-file is a shorthand to open user init file. By default user-init-file is used. If your configuration is generated from org-mode source you may want to point it to your org file.

(setq iqa-user-init-file (concat user-emacs-directory "init.org"))

File is opened by find-file but you can redefine it by e.g.

(setq iqa-find-file-function #'find-file-other-window)

iqa-reload-user-init-file reloads user-init-file (not iqa-user-init-file)

For a full restart take a look at restart-emacs package.

iqa-find-user-init-directory opens init file directory

iqa-setup-default defines keybindings:

C-x M-f — iqa-find-user-init-file

C-x M-r — iqa-reload-user-init-file

C-x M-d — iqa-find-user-init-directory