From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: re-defvar a variable without reloading emacs Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:51:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4A33A0BF.6030701@mousecar.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244897502 22139 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2009 12:51:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:51:42 +0000 (UTC) To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 13 14:51:40 2009 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 1MFShv-0007ts-WE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:51:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFShv-0000ho-FO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:51:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFSha-0000gV-4J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MFShZ-0000g4-Or for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60064 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFShZ-0000fl-HA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:63046) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFShY-0003sh-QR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.26] (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKpCa-1MFShW457D-000cor; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:51:16 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+zjjR9wMfg0ivYvDuOU0rkF2Zn/K5KP2J2vM+ Yp1Ql3sH1FJ1YuekSgsNPvtdzTf6mRNFsDS8QOEY3818Po/uWM WJxOQPBryN2BPqEu649pf4e7/MTLHFB X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:65244 Archived-At: I've got a defvar'd variable in my .emacs which I want to redefine. But rerunning (defvar somevar "someval") doesn't work... according to the docs, this is the correct behavior. So is there some way to redefine this variable without reloading the whole of emacs? Thanks vielmals. -- "To make an apple pie from scratch, first create the universe." -- Carl Sagan