From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Lilja Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: One .emacs for three operating system Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:59:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87k5rxu1uc.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187136024 29980 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2007 00:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 02:00:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IL6JB-00064K-FL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:00:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IL6JB-0002ot-0K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IL6Iq-0002oh-6S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:00:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IL6Io-0002oU-Tz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:59:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IL6Io-0002oR-NF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IL6Io-0000mn-6J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IL6Ih-0005i5-JT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se ([85.194.49.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:59:51 +0200 Original-Received: from mindcooler by cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:59:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cust.fiber-lan.vnet.lk.85.194.49.108.stunet.se User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <87k5rxu1uc.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46548 Archived-At: Eric Hanchrow wrote: >>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Lilja writes: > > Eric> if running-under-solaris is true do this else ; assume we > Eric> are running under winxp or fedora7 do that > > I do just that sort of thing like this: > > (case system-type > ((windows-nt) > "Boy, I'm unhappy because I'm running on Windoze") > ((cygwin32 cygwin) > (setq desktop-modes-not-to-save `(dired-mode))) > ((darwin) > ("OS X") > (setq grep-command "egrep --color=never -nH -e ")) > ((gnu/linux) > (setq freedom-level "'Free' as in 'Belgian Ale'"))) > Thanks Eric! Someone suggested cond in a private email but I actually like your version better. Thanks also to the other replies, I appreciate it! - Eric