Re: edit .emacs and then ....

[Ken Goldman]

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

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.