Re: test for presence of library

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Sorry for my tardy response... I got distracted for a while.
>
> Thanks posters one and all... good suggestions and great helpful
> info.  I have several solutions now.
>
> One case, the one that actually pertains here that didn't get
> mentioned by TimX is where something being required is only useful in
> certain environments.. 
>
> An example might be using emacs as root when doing system configs.
>
> There are really quite a few aspects of emacs I'll never use in that
> situation. Yet its handy to have a portable emacs that loads the stuff
> I need in some environments but skips it when working as root doing
> system configs.
>
> Or maybe running emacs as user but while setting up a new os where I
> won't expect many things to be available... 
>
> In those cases the idea that things may fail down the road from not
> loading certain libs is not a problem since those things will not even
> be attempted.  
>
> Now I know how to do it.

Really, when you are in for a quick edit (vi-like) with emacs as root,
just use:

    emacs -nw -q 

or:

    alias ed='emacs -nw -q'
    ed

;-)
    

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__Pascal Bourguignon__