[emacs-berlin] Suggested way to unset/undef/unalias stuff with emacsclient?

Diez B. Roggisch deets at web.de
Tue Jul 15 16:36:37 UTC 2025



> Am 15.07.2025 um 19:40 schrieb Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen at web.de>:
> 
> jman <emacs-berlin at city17.xyz> writes:
> 
>> Has anyone anything to share? :)
> 
> You describe a thing that has a psychological nature. In twenty years I
> never heard of anyone where what you describe had a practical
> consequence.  It's more about a feeling that the environment has to be
> cleaned.
> 
> If you want to experiment, use a new separate session.  And inside your
> session use the prefix "my-..." for definitions.
> 
> In any case, just programmatically removing definitions is a good recipe
> to make a restart necessary.
> 
> This is probably not the answer you wished for but the best advice I can
> share.

I can only agree to this. I’ve never felt this need. Sure, every now and then I’ll restart EMacs, when I’m tinkering with lisp code. But that’s thanks to desktop lazy buffer loading at max a 10 second roundtrip. Every now and then. 

Diez

> 
> 
> Michael.
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