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* Restart Emacs
** Table of contents :TOC_3_gh:
- [[#restart-emacs][Restart Emacs]]
- [[#what-is-this][What is this?]]
- [[#installation][Installation]]
- [[#elpa][ELPA]]
- [[#el-get][El-get]]
- [[#usage][Usage]]
- [[#compatibility][Compatibility]]
- [[#restarting-gui-emacs][Restarting GUI Emacs]]
- [[#restarting-emacs-running-in-a-terminal][Restarting Emacs running in a terminal]]
** What is this?
This is a simple package to restart Emacs for within Emacs. Inspired by [[http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5428/restart-emacs-from-within-emacs][this]]
stackoverflow question.
** Installation
*** ELPA
~restart-emacs~ is available on [[http://melpa.org/#/restart-emacs][MELPA]] and [[http://stable.melpa.org/#/restart-emacs][MELPA Stable]]. Please follow the instructions on
MELPA [[http://melpa.org/#/getting-started][website]] to enable it, if you haven't already.
You can then install ~restart-emacs~ from the [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Package-Menu.html][package menu]]. Alternatively install it by doing the following
Refresh the package index
#+BEGIN_QUOTE
M-x package-refresh-contents RET
#+END_QUOTE
And then install it by doing
#+BEGIN_QUOTE
M-x package-install RET restart-emacs
#+END_QUOTE
*** El-get
~restart-emacs~ can also be installed using ~el-get~. Assuming you have latest version of el-get installing it by doing something similar to
#+BEGIN_QUOTE
M-x el-get-install RET restart-emacs
#+END_QUOTE
** Usage
It offers only one command ~restart-emacs~ which kills current Emacs session
and starts a new session.
Additional arguments to be passed to the new instance can be specified using
prefix arguments
- with a single ~universal-argument~ (=C-u=) Emacs is restarted with ~--debug-init~ flag
- with two ~universal-argument~ (=C-u= =C-u=) Emacs is restarted with ~-Q~ flag
- with three ~universal-argument~ (=C-u= =C-u= =C-u=) the user is prompted for the arguments
** Compatibility
*** Restarting GUI Emacs
Restarting graphical Emacs should work on any UNIXy system with ~sh~ and on
Windows.
*** Restarting Emacs running in a terminal
This requires that the shell from which Emacs was launched supports job
control. This has been tested to work on ~sh~, ~bash~, ~zsh~, ~fish~, ~csh~
and ~tcsh~, however this does not work on Windows.
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