Subject: Re: bug#2520: 23.0.91; Dies on SIGHUP

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:06:09 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> Do we have a `M-x <something>` to re-read the init file?
> If not, why would it more important to offer a way to do it via SIGUSR?

The use case is that you're ssh-ing in to an Emacs running on a machine,
and you want to communicate with that Emacs (because it has all the
information you absolutely need right now in *scratch*), but you haven't
set up emacs-server on it yet.  (Any similarity to something that's
happened to me a dozen times is purely coincidental.) 

So if you could put (server-start) in ~/.emacs and send it SIGUSR,
that'd be nice.

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