Re: reloading mode

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

> On 23 Nov 2004, Alex Polite wrote:
>> I'm altering a mode (transcript.el). Restarting emacs after every edit
>> to the mode file is very tedious. What's the right way of doing it?
>
> You can put your cursor at or after the closing bracket in the
> expression and hit 'C-M-x' to run `eval-defun' and, as such, execute the
> changed code.

C-M-x is used *inside* the expression to evaluate.  C-x C-e is used
after the closing parenthesis.

One other difference is that C-M-x only evaluates top-level
expressions, but C-x C-e can be used inside expressions, too.

C-M-x handles defvar specially, I think that C-x C-e does not.
(The special handling means that changing the value in a defvar and
then doing C-M-x in it changes the value of the variable in Emacs,
although the standard definition of defvar does not change the
variable's value, if it already has one.)

Kai