From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rereading .emacs Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:20:40 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20020326111250.S3431@mobileway.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017148893 28934 127.0.0.1 (26 Mar 2002 13:21:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:21:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16pqtJ-0007WZ-00 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:21:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pqt1-00054i-00; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:21:15 -0500 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pqsf-000532-00 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:20:53 -0500 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g2QDKjb24367; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:20:45 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id OAA12465; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:20:40 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 4C0DF3AE82; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:20:40 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Todd Kokoszka In-Reply-To: <20020326111250.S3431@mobileway.com> (Todd Kokoszka's message of "Tue, 26 Mar 2002 11:12:50 +0100") Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14 Todd Kokoszka writes: > Is there a way to get emacs to reread the .emacs without restarting it? You can do M-x load-file RET ~/.emacs RET, but note that this might not do what you need: (setq foo (+ foo 1)) If this statement occurs in the file, then foo will grow every time you read ~/.emacs. kai -- Silence is foo!