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Re: using new versions of emacs without stoping a session
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YUE Daian |
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Re: using new versions of emacs without stoping a session |
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Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:47:01 +0800 |
On 2019-04-17 19:13, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:01:16 -0400
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>> You can definitely edit Emacs's C code while it's running as well as
>> compile this new code.
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> With one caveat: Windows won't let you overwrite a running executable,
> so the link step of compiling Emacs will fail on Windows until you
> shut down your running session.
Just out of curiosity: Why does Windows do so?
I mean, compilation process should have no effect on running processes.
What its point?