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> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Hugo Wolf <hwolf@deutsches.lieder.net>
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:45:36 GMT
> 
> system-configuration has the same value for any emacs running in osx,
> so it obviously can't be used to make any distinctions at
> all. system-configuration-options can currently distinguish in a very
> ugly way between an emacs that was _built_ with mac-windowing support
> and one that wasn't but of course says nothing at all about whether or
> not it's actually _running_ in that window system at any given time.

Then perhaps a bug report is on order, with a request to provide a way
to distinguish the two configurations you are interested in.

> You're obviously a very knowledgeable emacs guy

I obviously don't know enough about the Mac, so my attempts to help
are less efficient than they could have been.

> and even you don't
> seem to be able to find anything other than window-system that works
> for this.  Doesn't that tell you something?

No, not really.  What should that tell me?