title: Shortcut to open a specific file in Emacs
body: <p>I want to be able to use a keyboard shortcut to edit my .emacs file instead of typing <kbd>Ctrl-X</kbd><kbd>Ctrl-F</kbd>.emacs<kbd>Enter</kbd> every time (here's <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9079490/shortcut-to-open-specific-file-in-vim">an analogous question</a> regarding Vim). There's probably an obvious way of doing this, but I can't find the Emacs Lisp command to open a file. I'd think it would be something beginning with "open" or "file" but typing <kbd>M-x</kbd> and those terms doesn't seem to bring up anything relevant. I tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>(global-set-key (kbd "&lt;f6&gt;") (find-file "~/.emacs"))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but that doesn't work.</p>