From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs handling multiple versions Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:31:55 +0200 Message-ID: <86lkh8b1g4.fsf@ketchup.de.uu.net> References: <8896027D-3B50-4A48-82C6-51E9D230A710@monkeybytes.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175700764 15935 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2007 15:32:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:32:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 04 17:32:36 2007 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 1HZ7TN-0007sF-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:32:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ7We-0007HL-8d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:35:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ7WQ-0007HF-RJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ7WO-0007H3-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ7WO-0007H0-9s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:35:40 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZ7T6-00043s-UQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:32:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ7Sz-0003sf-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net ([62.191.185.105]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 17:32:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: de-lt-054776l.eu.frd.uu.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NfHZWGGJDfsLr8EbMZbOcLFWNqg= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:42415 Archived-At: 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" 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....