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Subject: Re: Take effect on changes in .emacs without closing emacs
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istillshine@gmail.com writes:

> How to see the results of my change of .emacs without exiting emacs?

I use this function:

;; reload the init file 
(defun reload ()                                         
  "Reload the .emacs file" 
  (interactive "*" )
  (load-file ".emacs"))

HTH,
Rob