From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs handling multiple versions
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:31:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lkh8b1g4.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8896027D-3B50-4A48-82C6-51E9D230A710@monkeybytes.org
IMVHO the best method is to check for the presence/absence of a
specific feature.
For example, if the problem is that sometimes a function doesn't
exist, then do
(when (fboundp 'foo)
(foo ...))
Kai
"perldev@monkeybytes.org" <perldev@monkeybytes.org> writes:
> Hey, gang:
>
> I'm running Carbon Emacs on OS X as my main emacs, thus my .emacs file
> has a bunch of carbon only hooks in it. However, sometimes I'll use
> the terminal emacs (shipped with OS X) and the .emacs file causes
> problems calling things that the terminal version can't handle. I'd
> like to keep the ability to use both... any suggestions for having
> the .emacs file know which version is calling it and respond
> accordingly?
>
> Thanks so much for the help.
>
> PS: I know I can forgo the .emacs file with "emacs -q", but most of my
> problems occur when some other application calls emacs automatically
> via the environmental $EDITOR....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-04 15:15 .emacs handling multiple versions perldev
2007-04-04 15:31 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2007-04-04 17:21 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-04-04 18:12 ` perldev
[not found] <mailman.1747.1175699939.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-04 15:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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