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Subject: Re: proper way to determine emacs version in elisp programing?
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On Aug 13, 10:30=A0pm, Teemu Likonen <tliko...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 2009-08-13 19:52 (-0700), Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > what's the proper way to determine emacs version?
>
> Variables emacs-major-version and emacs-minor-version. They contain an
> integer.
>
> But if you need to check if some feature exists in the system you'd
> better check precisely that. For example, check the existence of some
> function with (fboundp ...).

Thanks. Good points.

 Xah