From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: edit .emacs and then .... Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:11:37 -0400 Message-ID: <467ad8d2$1@news.greennet.net> References: <46798313$1@news.greennet.net> <87ir9jd6hh.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182372043 856 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2007 20:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 20 22:40:40 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 1I16yj-0000QD-2G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I16yi-0000ya-Ie for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:40:36 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 000C89FF4C00; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87ir9jd6hh.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 Original-X-Trace: 21 Jun 2007 16:00:18 -0400, 192.91.197.52 Original-Lines: 28 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!novia!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!feedme.ziplink.net!news.greennet.net!192.91.197.52 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149603 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:45191 Archived-At: Joel J. Adamson wrote: > Ken Goldman writes: > > >>David wrote: >> >>>This is a real newby question. I have a load of buffers in emacs and I >>>edit .emacs with some new cool macro or what ever. To get the new code >>>working I could close and restart emacs, but I will have to re-load >>>every buffer. Is there an easy way to either 1) get the new lisp code >>>working without closing and reopening, or 2) close and reopen and >>>still have all the same buffers available so I don't have to open >>>easch manually. >>> >> >>Put your cursor at the end of the statement, and then ... >> >>C-x C-e runs the command eval-last-sexp > > > 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.