From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: checking emacs version
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:36:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-975057.23361523022009@mara100-84.onlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0cda7201-96b3-4625-a760-f5548658e968@l16g2000yqo.googlegroups.com
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In article
<0cda7201-96b3-4625-a760-f5548658e968@l16g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,
Eric <girzel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 24, 12:07 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > From: Eric <gir...@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:59:43 -0800 (PST)
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > You can do as simple as
> >
> > (if (>= emacs-major-version 21)
> > (do-something))
> >
> > or more sophisticated
> >
> > (if (version<= 23.0.98)
> > (do-something-else))
> >
> > Is that what you are looking for?
>
> No, sorry! I totally failed to say what I was actually doing -- not
> checking emacs versions but checking emacs ports: I use Carbon Emacs
> on my mac at home, and vanilla emacs on my server, and want to set
> some Carbon-specific variables when I'm at home. The string "Carbon"
> show up in (emacs-version), that's why I was thinking that might be
> how I have to do it.
Are you sure you need to conditionalize on that, rather than something
more generic? E.g.
(if (eq window-system 'mac)
(do-something))
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-24 2:59 checking emacs version Eric
2009-02-24 4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1610.1235448457.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-24 4:21 ` Eric
2009-02-24 4:36 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2009-02-24 5:19 ` Eric
2009-02-24 14:29 ` Jonathan Groll
[not found] ` <mailman.1644.1235485784.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-24 15:23 ` Eric
2009-02-24 9:35 ` Leo
2009-02-24 17:58 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1636.1235468408.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-24 17:40 ` Colin S. Miller
2009-02-24 18:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-02-24 22:02 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1685.1235512964.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-02-25 4:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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