Thanks, Chris and Bill. If that's the only serious way to do it, I'll experiment along those lines.
I have a system-macro writer called Keyboard Maestro which I guess can be turned to the purpose. On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 2:02 PM, chris burke <cbu...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > Close down and restart is needed to get a clean system. > > I have several shortcuts that start J in various ways. So I manually close > J (for me by pressing Esc) and then click a shortcut. > > However, restart can be done with something like the following (in Linux): > > exit 2!:0 '~/j8/jqt.sh &' > > This starts a new J session and closes the existing one. > > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 3:17 AM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Am I the only person with a need to reliably restart JQt (running on OS > X) > > with a choice of (diagnostic) startup scripts? > > > > If not, what do other people do? > > > > Simply loading '~system/util/boot.ijs' requires garbage to be first > > identified and erased. Erasing all locales doesn't work, because boot.ijs > > expects some content to exist in _j_ and _z_. (ARGV for a start). > > > > Has the matter already been provided for? > > > > Why don't I just carry-on exitting and relaunching JQt from the Dock? > Let's > > just say I'd prefer not to. And I'd rather do it with a single hotkey. > > > > Ian Clark > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
