From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how do i find out the platform emacs runs on? Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:15:44 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FCB9360.1090708@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070309671 15004 80.91.224.253 (1 Dec 2003 20:14:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 20:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 01 21:14:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AQuRB-0004gl-00 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:14:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AQuj6-0004sF-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:33:00 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1070306149 69081341 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118853 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14793 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14793 Svend Tollak Munkejord wrote: > On 2003-11-24, Eli Zaretskii 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