How can I restart an ansi-term buffer?

Question

I have an open buffer with major mode ansi-term, and with scrollback. This buffer has crashed.

I'd like to "recycle" the buffer into a new ansi-term such that scrollback is kept. How can I do this?

Answer 1

I exited from an bash shell in ansi-term, and this worked for me to resurrect my terminal:

M-: (make-term "ansi-term" "/bin/bash") RET

(Credits to wgreenhouse on freenode #emacs irc, though he used zsh.)