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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: how do i find out the platform emacs runs on?
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:15:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FCB9360.1090708@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hddhe0k7vuz.fsf@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no

Svend Tollak Munkejord wrote:

> On 2003-11-24, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote:
>>The command "M-x apropos-variable RET system RET" will show you a list
>>of all the variables that are useful for this and similar purposes.
>>No need to guess or try-and-err.
>>
> 
> Here (GNU Emacs 21.3) "M-x apropos-variable RET system RET" lists
...
> Nothing about `system-type'. It is listed (among many other items) with
> "M-x apropos RET system RET", though.

That's because the system-* Lisp variables are not user variables (aka
options): they can't be set with `M-x set-variable'.  To see all such
Lisp variables, use `C-h v system ?' instead.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-01 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-24  4:42 how do i find out the platform emacs runs on? leo
2003-11-24  6:11 ` Ola Nilsson
2003-11-25  3:53   ` leo
2003-11-26  9:32   ` seki
2003-11-26 17:21     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-26 17:35       ` Edi Weitz
2003-11-26 17:36     ` Phillip Lord
2003-11-26 22:29       ` Ehud Karni
2003-11-27 10:02       ` Sébastien Kirche
2003-11-24  6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.485.1069658500.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-24  9:39   ` apropos apropos [was: how do i find out the platform emacs runs on?] Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-24 12:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-24 18:45     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-24 21:03       ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-25 17:40         ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.496.1069681832.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-29 10:50       ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-30  6:53         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-01  9:03   ` how do i find out the platform emacs runs on? Svend Tollak Munkejord
2003-12-01 13:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-01 19:15     ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.851.1070328153.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-02  8:20       ` Svend Tollak Munkejord
2003-12-02 17:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.924.1070390102.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-03  8:42           ` Svend Tollak Munkejord

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