Resetting GNU emacs to its initial state.

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From: Lloyd Zusman
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 1990 13:23

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I'm using GNU emacs version 18.55.

Is there a way for me to reset my emacs session to its initial state?  In
other words, I'd like to kill all user-created buffers, unbind all
user-created variables and functions, free all user-allocated memory, etc.

After performing this hypothetical process I'd like my emacs session to be
in the state it was in right after I started it up, and right before it
tried to load my ~/.emacs file.

Is this possible?  If so, how?

You can reply here or via email.

Thanks in advance.
--
 Lloyd Zusman
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