Re: How to reload an updated library?

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)]

I've never been quite clear in emacs on the meanings of library, package, extension... I think I mean package, such as what you download from `m-x list-packages`: in this case, a whole program like Helm which includes many .el files. 

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> In this case, I'm talking about the Helm package. I
>> follow it on git and sometimes will `git pull` to
>> update it, then can make it. But the only way I know
>> to implement the new changes in emacs is to restart
>> emacs. I tried evaluate-buffer on one of the main
>> library files, but it didn't seem to do the trick.
>> Restarting emacs is a pain if I have many ongoing
>> projects; how can I implement the updates to the
>> package without restarting emacs?
>
> With "library", do you mean something more advanced
> than just an Elisp (.el) file which is usually what is
> meant?
>
> Such are loaded with <drumroll> `load' - either
> `load-file' (input the library file) or `load-library'
> (ditto name). With `load-library' you will get the
> .elc compiled version rather than the .el source if
> both are available.