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From: "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Restarting Emacs?
Date: 30 Jul 2009 02:08:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wi76niq.fsf@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ACFB9249-E6C9-42FC-A936-04B9BE9C824B@digg.com> (Ian Eure's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:57:10 -0700")

Ian Eure <ian@digg.com> writes:

> On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Elena wrote:
>
>> can you make Emacs restart itself a la Firefox (for instance: after an
>> heavy update of initialization file)?
>>
> Why would you want to do that when you could just eval-buffer the new
> init file?

For example, because you have defined a keybinding and you want to get
rid of it again. Deleting the code and evaluating the buffer wouldn't
delete the keybinding, would it?

Sven

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-29 11:53 Restarting Emacs? Elena
2009-07-29 22:13 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-07-29 22:57 ` Ian Eure
2009-07-30  0:08   ` Sven Bretfeld [this message]
2009-07-30  0:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-30  1:59   ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found] ` <mailman.3422.1248908240.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-30  7:49   ` Elena

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