From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: checking emacs version Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:59:43 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <643cd3d3-5a51-41ce-b830-b71f27b59666@h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235446854 22760 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 03:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 04:42:10 2009 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 1LboBI-0005v3-EM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:42:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52043 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lbo9x-000188-QW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.121.197.211 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235444383 21232 127.0.0.1 (24 Feb 2009 02:59:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=123.121.197.211; posting-account=VidhwQoAAAClDZCDm61050TEZVFYPse- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.1+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167003 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:62305 Archived-At: 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? Thanks, Eric