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Terrence Brannon <thequietcenter@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, when I lose my internet connection, my shell buffer is no
> longer useable and there is a message:
>
> Process shell exited abnormally with code 255
>
> I would like to have the process restarted for that shell buffer via
> some command instead of killing the buffer and typing M-x shell again.

You can't bring back the dead process, but you can certainly reuse the
buffer.  Just type "M-x shell" *without* killing the buffer first.