From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>
Subject: Re: Operating system in an emacs variable?
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:15:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E7B9D13.4090101@ihs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1c58a7c3.0303211238.1d391d28@posting.google.com
Barman Brakjoller wrote:
> Oh? What a disapointment! The subject of this thread sounded really
> really cool; imagine putting a whole operating system into an emacs
> variable! That would have been really cool!
(defvar system
(with-temp-buffer
(insert-file-contents-literally
(cond ((file-executable-p "/etc/init") "/etc/init")
((file-executable-p "C:\\sys\\windows.exe") ; or whatever
"C:\\sys\\windows.exe")))
(buffer-string))
"The current operating system.")
--
<a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-21 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-19 10:15 Operating system in an emacs variable? Carsten Dominik
2003-03-19 11:17 ` Bastien Guerry
2003-03-21 15:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-03-19 11:52 ` Ehud Karni
2003-03-19 16:03 ` Pete Oster
2003-03-21 20:38 ` Barman Brakjoller
2003-03-21 23:15 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-03-22 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-03-27 15:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-03-27 21:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-03-27 22:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
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