From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: One .emacs for three operating system Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:35:07 -0700 Message-ID: <87k5rxu1uc.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187134725 26901 80.91.229.12 (14 Aug 2007 23:38:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:38:45 +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 Aug 15 01:38:43 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 1IL5yC-0000iQ-WF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:38:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IL5yC-0007ON-GL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:38:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IL5xw-0007Ni-9e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:38:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IL5xv-0007NF-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IL5xv-0007NB-1m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:38:23 -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 1IL5xu-00051C-Gx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:38:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IL5xj-0003VI-9q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:38:11 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:38:11 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:38:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AIHu/1MyTwOXa2u42YbGrsLQjps= 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:46545 Archived-At: >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Lilja writes: Eric> if running-under-solaris is true do this else ; assume we Eric> are running under winxp or fedora7 do that I do just that sort of thing like this: (case system-type ((windows-nt) "Boy, I'm unhappy because I'm running on Windoze") ((cygwin32 cygwin) (setq desktop-modes-not-to-save `(dired-mode))) ((darwin) ("OS X") (setq grep-command "egrep --color=never -nH -e ")) ((gnu/linux) (setq freedom-level "'Free' as in 'Belgian Ale'"))) -- The only form of intelligence that really matters is the capacity to predict. -- Colin Blakemore