From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: edit .emacs and then .... Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:39:06 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87ir9jd6hh.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <46798313$1@news.greennet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182285690 14321 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 20:41:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:41:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 22:41:28 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 1I0kVz-000678-0y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:41:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0kVx-0006n0-EG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:41:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeeder.wxs.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1182285561 32672 132.183.29.121 (19 Jun 2007 20:39:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:39:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v6LzHxCaZ7CoWcyrgZZNBxcQRFI= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149585 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:45173 Archived-At: 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 Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 A webpage of interest: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html