From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Machine-dependent elisp Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:34:58 -0600 Message-ID: References: <84mxww8rff.fsf@csr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272425730 10682 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2010 03:35:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:35:30 +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 Apr 28 05:35:28 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6y3b-0003J2-G0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:35:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6y3a-0001XS-UX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O6y3E-0001XD-6j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38054 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O6y3D-0001X5-1T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6y3A-0002WO-Vf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6y3A-0002Vu-Or for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O6y35-0003B1-K7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:34:55 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:34:55 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:34:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:72852 Archived-At: Alex Bennee wrote: > On 21 April 2010 21:46, wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have some code which I would like to make dependent on the machine I >> am currently working on. I have a single .emacs shared between my work >> machine and my home machine. I thought about making dependent on the ip >> address (or hostname) but then I need a way to get the ip address (or >> hostname) of my current machine. > > I do exactly this with (system-name), e.g.: > > (defvar I-am-at-work (string-match "workdomain" (system-name))) > (defvar I-am-at-home (string-match "danny" (system-name))) > (defvar I-am-on-netbook (string-match "trent" (system-name))) > > And then later on in my .emacs I have stanzas like: > > (cond > ((eval I-am-on-netbook) Nix the eval. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA