From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what version of emacs am I running? Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:19:13 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87odv9qhjy.fsf@hans.local.net> References: <87psfppjgh.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154164899 26965 80.91.229.2 (29 Jul 2006 09:21:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:21:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 29 11:21:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6l0r-0004st-Aq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:21:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6l0q-0006IA-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:21:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6l0E-0005zZ-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6l0B-0005zB-St for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:20:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6l0B-0005z8-PH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.183] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G6l2M-0002b0-Te for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.167.46.98] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwtQ-1G6l080kJQ-00057O; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:20:52 +0200 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A860350E69; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:19:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Leon In-Reply-To: (Leon's message of "Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:17:12 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 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:36364 Archived-At: Leon writes: > Gary Wessle writes: > >> Hi >> >> believe or not, I googled for this, I C-h v "what ever string I could >> think of to find out" for no avail >> >> thanks > > M-x version. It's also available from the 'Help' menu. I'm probably riding this thread to death ..., anyway I learned: The `version' command is an alias for `emacs-version' and here's another method for the command line (in the unlikely case that no Emacs is currently running): $ emacs --version -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany