Re: checking emacs version

["Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>]

Leo wrote:
> On 2009-02-24 02:59 +0000, Eric wrote:
>> I'm writing an .emacs file that will need to work under a few
>> different versions of emacs, and wanted to ask what the most reliable
>> method of checking the current emacs version. Is a simple string
>> search in (emacs-version) acceptable, or is there a more robust way of
>> doing it?
> 
> `system-type'
> 
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
> 
Under xemacs, I use
(setq custom-file (concat "~/.xemacs/custom-" (symbol-name system-type) ".el"))

This allows me to have a different customisation file for each platform I use.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller
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