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From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: edit .emacs and then ....
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:29:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odj9753t.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 467ad8d2$1@news.greennet.net

Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com> writes:

> Joel J. Adamson wrote:
>> Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com> writes:

>> That's the simplest way: others are
>>
>> M-x eval-buffer RET
>> M-x load-file RET ~/.emacs
>
> Rerunning the entire file can cause problems.  Some code may not be
> idempotent - it does different things if you run it more than once.
> An example would be code that appends.

Good point: I notice that when I run my .emacs after everything has
loaded, my colors change slightly.

Joel

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Joel J. Adamson
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Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
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(617) 643-1432
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A webpage of interest:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-21 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2187.1181903494.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-15 12:29 ` edit .emacs and then Andy Chambers
2007-06-15 12:53   ` Tassilo Horn
2007-06-19 19:53 ` Ken Goldman
2007-06-19 20:39   ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-06-20 20:11     ` Ken Goldman
2007-06-21 14:29       ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
2007-06-15  9:24 David
2007-06-15 10:36 ` n_powell
2007-06-15 11:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-06-15 13:33   ` David

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