Restarting XEmacs

Let's try that again, because many people don't notice it the first time through...  There is no reason to exit from XEmacs on purpose, and restart it every time you want to edit something!  Leave an XEmacs window by moving your focus of attention to another window and clicking there, and return to XEmacs by clicking in the XEmacs window.

To exit from XEmacs, move the mouse pointer so that it is located on the "File" menu and hold down the left mouse button. While holding down the button, drag the mouse down the screen until the menu item "Exit XEmacs" is highlighted.

Before releasing the mouse button, notice the C-x C-c to the right side of the highlighted box. This is just a reminder that Control-x Control-c can be used to exit emacs from the command line instead of using the mouse. Whether you like the mouse or the keyboard is a matter of personal preference, but for now, just go ahead and release the mouse button and the XEmacs window should disappear from your screen.

We will now restart XEmacs.
 

Move the mouse pointer so that it is located either in an xterm window. Enter the command: emacs &     The XEmacs window will now reappear.

Remember, as explained before, that you can also start XEmacs from the "Personal Applications" menu that pops up from the front panel when you click the little arrow above the icon that looks like a computer terminal.

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