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POIs there a way to make changes to toggles in my .emacs file apply without re-starting Emacs?
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  1. POIs there a way to make changes to toggles in my .emacs file apply without re-starting Emacs?
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    copied!<p>I want to be able to make the changes to my .emacs file without having to reload Emacs.</p> <p>I found three questions which sort of answer what I am asking (you can find them <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580650/how-can-i-reload-emacs-after-changing-it">here</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/167705/not-restarting-emacs">here</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2281593/how-can-i-load-changes-to-my-emacs-without-rebooting-emacs">here</a>), but the problem is that the change I have just made is to a toggle, and as the comments to two of the answers (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580650/how-can-i-reload-emacs-after-changing-it/2580726#2580726">a1</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2281593/how-can-i-load-changes-to-my-emacs-without-rebooting-emacs/2281628#2281628">a2</a>) to those questions explain, the solutions given there (such as M-x reload-file or M-x eval-buffer) don't apply to toggles.</p> <p>I imagine there is a way of toggling the variable again with a command, but if there is a way to reload the whole .emacs and have the all the toggles re-evaluated without having to specify them, I would prefer.</p> <p>In any case, I would also appreciate if someone told me how to toggle the value of a variable so that if I just changed one toggle I can do it with a command rather than re-start Emacs just for that (I am new to Emacs). I don't know how useful this information is, but the change I applied was the following (which I got from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/154097/whats-in-your-emacs/2643094#2643094">this</a> answer to another question):</p> <pre><code>(setq skeleton-pair t) (setq skeleton-pair-on-word t) (global-set-key (kbd "[") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe) (global-set-key (kbd "(") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe) (global-set-key (kbd "{") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe) (global-set-key (kbd "&lt;") 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe) </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit</strong>: I included the above in .emacs and reloaded Emacs, so that the changes took effect. Then I commented all of it out and tried M-x load-file. This doesn't work. The suggestion below (C-x C-e by <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/209744/pp">PP</a> works if I am using it to evaluate the toggle first time, but not when I want to undo it). I would like something that would evaluate the commenting out, if such thing exists...</p> <p>Thanks :)</p>
 

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