GNU bug report logs - #2520
Read configuration file on SIGUSR1

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Message #38 received at 2520 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, rfrancoise <at> debian.org,
 Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, cmr.Pent <at> gmail.com, 2520 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2520: 23.0.91; Dies on SIGHUP
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:06:09 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> 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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