While not in line with the Lisp philosophy, it's far more hygienic to restart Emacs after a configuration change rather than reloading the init file. There's re

While not in line with the Lisp philosophy, it's far more hygienic to restart Emacs after a configuration change rather than reloading the init file. There's really no way to bring Emacs back to a pre-init state in order to recreate the initialization process. Not to mention that compiling the init file runs different code than loading the init file, and Lisp expressions are far from idempotent, so you can't really be sure your changes work until you restart Emacs anyway.