From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: edit .emacs and then .... Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:29:58 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87odj9753t.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <46798313$1@news.greennet.net> <87ir9jd6hh.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <467ad8d2$1@news.greennet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182436841 5107 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2007 14:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 16:40:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I1Nps-0005F2-4F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1Npr-00007M-JI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newspump.sol.net!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1182436214 3178 132.183.29.121 (21 Jun 2007 14:30:14 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:30:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ihra1s/LeEdl8dxgGqK1+a9NWB0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149617 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45201 Archived-At: Ken Goldman writes: > Joel J. Adamson wrote: >> Ken Goldman writes: >> That's the simplest way: others are >> >> M-x eval-buffer RET >> M-x load-file RET ~/.emacs > > Rerunning the entire file can cause problems. Some code may not be > idempotent - it does different things if you run it more than once. > An example would be code that appends. Good point: I notice that when I run my .emacs after everything has loaded, my colors change slightly. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 A webpage of interest: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html