instance process name

instance process name

[Rancier, Jeff]

Hello All,
Is there an easy method to retrieve the process name of 'this' instance of
Emacs, via a lisp expression?

Jeff

Re: instance process name

[Kevin Rodgers]

Rancier, Jeff wrote:
 > Is there an easy method to retrieve the process name of 'this' 
instance of
 > Emacs, via a lisp expression?

,----[ C-h f emacs-pid RET ]
| emacs-pid is a built-in function.
| (emacs-pid)
|
| Return the process ID of Emacs, as an integer.
`----

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

RE: instance process name

[Rancier, Jeff]

Thanks Kevin.  Actually, I'm running GNU Emacs 21.3.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8,
X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) from Windows, but when I bring up Sun's Forte
Debugger (workshop), Sun has integrated the debugger into Xemacs, and I
simply want the ability to load/~load various features, as they both use the
same init file.  I'll probably just use the emacs-build-system or
emacs-version.

Jeff

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Kevin Rodgers [mailto:ihs_4664@yahoo.com] 
| Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:15 PM
| To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
| Subject: Re: instance process name
| 
| 
| Rancier, Jeff wrote:
|  > Is there an easy method to retrieve the process name of 'this' 
| instance of
|  > Emacs, via a lisp expression?
| 
| ,----[ C-h f emacs-pid RET ]
| | emacs-pid is a built-in function.
| | (emacs-pid)
| |
| | Return the process ID of Emacs, as an integer.
| `----
| 
| -- 
| Kevin Rodgers
| 
| 
| 
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Re: instance process name

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Rancier, Jeff" <Jeff.Rancier@Sensis.com>
> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:46:53 -0400 
> 
> Is there an easy method to retrieve the process name of 'this' instance of
> Emacs, via a lisp expression?

It is not clear to me what you mean by ``the process name''.  Can you
clarify?

One possibility is (car command-line-args), but I'm not sure if that's
what you want.

Re: instance process name

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks Kevin.  Actually, I'm running GNU Emacs 21.3.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8,
> X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) from Windows, but when I bring up Sun's Forte
> Debugger (workshop), Sun has integrated the debugger into Xemacs, and I
> simply want the ability to load/~load various features, as they both use the
> same init file.  I'll probably just use the emacs-build-system or
> emacs-version.

You'll probably be yet better off checking (fboundp '<foo>) and (featurep
'<bar>) and (boundp '<baz>) and things like that.

But you'll have to tell us more if you want a more complete answer.


        Stefan

RE: instance process name

[Rancier, Jeff]

The actual name from the process table, specifically, I want to
differentiate between 'xemacs' vs. 'emacs'.  Thanks.


| -----Original Message-----
| From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:eliz@gnu.org] 
| Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 6:40 AM
| To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
| Subject: Re: instance process name
| 
| 
| > From: "Rancier, Jeff" <Jeff.Rancier@Sensis.com>
| > Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:46:53 -0400 
| > 
| > Is there an easy method to retrieve the process name of 
| 'this' instance of
| > Emacs, via a lisp expression?
| 
| It is not clear to me what you mean by ``the process name''.  Can you
| clarify?
| 
| One possibility is (car command-line-args), but I'm not sure if that's
| what you want.
| 
| 
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| Help-gnu-emacs mailing list
| Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
| http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
| 

Re: instance process name

[Henrik Enberg]

> From: "Rancier, Jeff" <Jeff.Rancier@Sensis.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:44:39 -0400 
> 
> The actual name from the process table, specifically, I want to
> differentiate between 'xemacs' vs. 'emacs'.  Thanks.

(if (featurep 'xemacs)
    (message "it's XEmacs")
  (message "it's Emacs"))

Re: instance process name

[Kevin Rodgers]

Rancier, Jeff wrote:
 > The actual name from the process table, specifically, I want to
 > differentiate between 'xemacs' vs. 'emacs'.  Thanks.

,----[ C-h v invocation-name RET ]
| invocation-name's value is "emacs"
|
| Documentation:
| The program name that was used to run Emacs.
| Any directory names are omitted.
`----

-- 
Kevin Rodgers