Instant access to your shell init files

Re:Instant access to your shell init files by b1476 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:06PM (#23883377)

I’m all for Emacs tips and tricks, but this just seems unnecessary. Using find-file (C-x C-f) along with tab completion to open your .bashrc or whatever is literally several key strokes. Does anyone really edit their shell config that often to warrant binding it to a key to shave off several milliseconds?

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Re:Instant access to your shell init files by karlicoss on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:16PM (#23883484)

Or, alternatively, builtin recentf [0] or bookmarks [1] features

[0] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RecentFiles

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Bo...

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Re:Instant access to your shell init files by clwk on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:30PM (#23883593)

Thank you.

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Re:Instant access to your shell init files by dmortin on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:08PM (#23883935)

Yeah, it's not really worth it.

Your home directory should be indexed anyway (along with other interesting directories), so you should be able to simply quickly switch to any file in the index, regardless if it's open or not, using your favorite solution for this (Helm, etc.)

This makes bookmarking files pretty pointless, since all your interesting files are instantly available anytime with completion regardless of the current directory.

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Re:Instant access to your shell init files by reedlaw on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:47PM (#23883754)

I use key-chord to bind xc (both keys pressed at the same time) to my emacs config file:

    (key-chord-define-global "xc" (lambda () (interactive) (find-file "~/.emacs.d/reed.org")))

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Re:Instant access to your shell init files by m463 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:53PM (#23885512)

this is really cool. I tried it, but apparently I need to find key-chord

EDIT: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/key-chord.el

Thank you for this. Makes me think those folks with keyboards that have less than say 87 keys might actually have a chance.

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Re:Instant access to your shell init files by PuercoPop on Saturday July 18, 2020 @03:12PM (#23883977)

Also if you want a menu of places to go Emacs has bookmarks for that.

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Re:Instant access to your shell init files by mturmon on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:55PM (#23885525)

Yep. The problem I really want to solve is, go to the shell init file where $LESS or $MANPATH or whatever is defined.

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