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Restart frontmost application with AppleScript (revised version of my script from c. 2011)
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gistfile1.applescript
tell application "System Events" to set _app to the name of the first process whose frontmost is true
tell application _app
quit
set _isRunning to true
repeat while (_isRunning)
delay 1
tell application "System Events"
set _isRunning to ((name of processes) contains _app)
end tell
end repeat
end tell
tell application _app to activate
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