Create User Command To Open Init Config

I'm experimenting with a fresh Neovim configuration using kickstart. That means I'm frequently navigating to my init.lua file to add and adjust things that I find are missing from my workflow.

I got tired of typing out the path—in my case ~/.config/nvim/init.lua—every single time I wanted to edit it. So, I typed out that path one last time so that I could add a custom user command.

-- Open this config file
vim.api.nvim_create_user_command(
  'Config',
  "e ~/.config/nvim/init.lua",
  {bang = true, desc = "Open init.lua Neovim config"}
)

This uses the lua command API to create a user-defined command.

When I invoke :Config from the Neovim command prompt and hit enter, Neovim will effectively replace that command with the second argument to that command — :e ~/.config/nvim/init.lua. Which opens me up to the config file.

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