Hmm, good question.  All though, the OP did state he was using it to write
shell scripts, others might not know.

I honestly don't know.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 January 2012 18:54:31 Jai Dayal wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Kim Young <kimyoung@me.com> wrote:
> > > I am running Mac os x lion and I want to use emacs to try to write some
> > > shell scripts for work. I am new to emacs so I would like help with
> some
> > > very basic things.
> > >
> > > 1.      What is the command to determine the version of emacs that is
> > > provided with lion?
> >
> > 1) in terminal type, emacs --version
>
> This maybe doesn't apply to the OP, but I've seen MacOSX users who don't
> even
> know what a "terminal" is, let alone how to open one (being a Linux user
> myself, I also had some trouble finding a way to open a terminal when I
> first
> sat in front of a Mac machine on one occasion).
>
> So, is there a way to find out the emacs version from within a running
> emacs
> instance itself?
>
> Best, :-)
> Marko
>
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>
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