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restart-emacs does not work on Windows 11

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From: Jan Jouleodov <jouleodov <at> protonmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: restart-emacs does not work on Windows 11
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:03:16 +0000

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restart-emacs is a pretty useful command I use frequently on the WSL version of Emacs. Unfortunately, it does not seem to work for Windows.

I recall reading somewhere that it has something to do with how Windows schedules the restarts, though I seem to recall that restart-emacs was part of a package, and not included with Emacs itself.

Anyways, right now, the command simply closes Emacs but fails to start it up again, and works fine on WSL.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jan Jouleodov <jouleodov <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 75944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75944: restart-emacs does not work on Windows 11
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:20:47 +0200

> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:03:16 +0000
> From:  Jan Jouleodov via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> restart-emacs is a pretty useful command I use frequently on the WSL version of Emacs. Unfortunately, it
> does not seem to work for Windows.
> 
> I recall reading somewhere that it has something to do with how Windows schedules the restarts, though I
> seem to recall that restart-emacs was part of a package, and not included with Emacs itself.
> 
> Anyways, right now, the command simply closes Emacs but fails to start it up again, and works fine on WSL.

See bug#75631.  Maybe you have the same or similar problem.

restart-emacs works flawlessly for me on MS-Windows 11.

Message #13 received at 75944-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jan Jouleodov <jouleodov <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 75944-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75944: restart-emacs does not work on Windows 11
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:20:46 +0200

> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:28:50 +0000
> From: Jan Jouleodov <jouleodov <at> protonmail.com>
> 
> Yes, looks to be a similar issue.
> 
> Running with runemacs.exe does not work.
> Running with emacs.exe *also does not work*.
> Running with emacs-29.1.exe, however, works as expected.
> 
> > On Thursday, January 30th, 2025 at 2:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > 
> > See bug#75631. Maybe you have the same or similar problem.

No further comments, so I presume this is indeed the same issue, and
I'm therefore closing this bug.

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