From: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using new versions of emacs without stoping a session
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 23:35:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F70F064E-1BC6-463A-8DC9-DC9A297F30AF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva7go20p9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Thank you Stephan.
Jean-Christophe
> On Apr 17, 2019, at 23:01, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to keep emacs running and update its code ?
>> For lisp code I guess that's not an issue, but for the c code ?
>
> You can definitely edit Emacs's C code while it's running as well as
> compile this new code. I do that all the time.
> But in order for Emacs to start using this new code, you're going to
> have to start a new process (but you don't have to stop the old
> process for that).
>
> That's one of the main reasons why we generally prefer when the
> code is written in Elisp rather than in C,
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
Jean-Christophe Helary
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-17 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-17 13:31 using new versions of emacs without stoping a session Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-17 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-17 14:35 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2019-04-17 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-18 2:47 ` YUE Daian
2019-04-18 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-18 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-18 12:46 ` Yuri Khan
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