Re: [Jprogramming] restarting JQt

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Clark
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 wrote: > Close down and restart is needed to get a cl

Re: [Jprogramming] restarting JQt

2018-06-21 Thread chris burke
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 s

Re: [Jprogramming] restarting JQt

2018-06-21 Thread bill lam
I don't booting up J is idempotent. May be you can try write a script which kill the current process and then start a new J. (untested) On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 6:17 PM Ian Clark wrote: > Am I the only person with a need to reliably restart JQt (running on OS X) > with a choice of (diagnostic) star

[Jprogramming] restarting JQt

2018-06-21 Thread Ian Clark
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