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Re: re-loading .emacs file
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David Vanderschel |
Subject: |
Re: re-loading .emacs file |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:46:24 -0500 |
"Lowell" <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> wrote in message
news:bfqtkc$a82$1@mughi.cs.ubc.ca...
> It's a bit of a pain to have to restart emacs all the time (I'm learning
> elisp and working on my .emacs file constantly), but only a _bit_ of a
> pain.
For really rapid turnaround, you can just do
eval-buffer after you have changed it. There is a
caveat here: You must organize your initialization
code so that it works correctly when executed more
than once. For example, do not add things to lists
when they are already there. add-hook is a function
which behaves correctly. For my own purposes, I also
created
(defun dv-add-to-list (thing list-name) "Add only if not already there."
(let ((list (eval list-name)))
(if (not (member thing list))
(set list-name (cons thing list)))))
Eg, (dv-add-to-list (cons "\\.nr$" 'nroff-mode) 'auto-mode-alist)
Regards,
David V.