From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: checking emacs version Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:37:02 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87d4d7adgx.fsf@galatea.local> References: <643cd3d3-5a51-41ce-b830-b71f27b59666@h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235500946 7531 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 18:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:42:26 +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 19:43:42 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 1Lc2Fn-0008D4-Mm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:43:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lc2ET-00053F-4Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:42:17 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-b.proxad.net!nnrp14-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NjNlZTllM2YxZjYxZGQwYzAwNWYwZjlmYjUwY2EyY2E5NzE3MWEzZQ== Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Feb 2009 19:37:03 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1235500623 news-4.free.fr 27525 88.182.134.169:60491 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167030 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:62331 Archived-At: Eric writes: > 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? (list emacs-version emacs-major-version emacs-minor-version system-type system-name system-configuration window-system (when (boundp 'aquamacs-version) aquamacs-version)) --> ("22.3.1" 22 3 darwin "galatea.local" "i386-apple-darwin9.5.0" x nil) ; here. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__