Re: Configuration query

["Jörg Hagmann" <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch>]

M-x load-file RET .emacs ?

On 11/17/10 10:19 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> Aloha all,
>
> This might be a naive query, but I'm wondering if there is some standard
> way to put the emacs configuration back to a previous state outside of
> the customization interface?
>
> I'm finding that I frequently work with Org-mode files that need
> different configurations. I typically have a #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> block in these files that I can execute with C-c C-c, so that emacs
> behaves the way the file requires for the task at hand. When I'm done,
> though, and jump onto the next task, which might depend on my standard
> configuration to work correctly, I sometimes find that the changes I've
> made break things. At this point, I typically save, quit emacs and start
> over.
>
> What I'd like to do is be able to have, in each file that contains an
> emacs-lisp source block that changes the configuration, a corresponding
> source code block that puts things back the way they were before the
> block was executed.
>
> Perhaps there is an easy way to do this?
>
> All the best,
> Tom
>
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