Re: Take effect on changes in .emacs without closing emacs

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:58:38 +0200, Rob Wolfe <rw@smsnet.pl> wrote:
> 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"))

The current directory may have changed since Emacs started.  A minor
improvement is probably:

    (load-file user-init-file)

The `user-init-file' contains the absolute path of the user's init file.
If the actual init file loaded is a compiled file, such as `.emacs.elc',
the value refers to the corresponding source file, so the `load-file'
call will DTRT regardless of the current working directory.