RE: Running .emacs style commands within emacs

[Drew Adams]

> Actually what I meant was, I want to run lisp forms from
> within emacs. Eg, (global-set-key "\C-\M-z" 'delete-whole-line).
> There must be a Lisp engine running within Emacs that interprets
> this form when it is in the .emacs init file. Can I send lisp
> forms to this engine at any given time during an Emacs session?
> I know global-set-key can be run from M-x but it's interactive,
> I'd like to be able to enter the above form manually.

C-M-x, with the cursor on the sexp somewhere, assuming you are in
emacs-lisp-mode. See node Lisp Eval of the Emacs manual.

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