From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: checking emacs version Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:23:46 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <643cd3d3-5a51-41ce-b830-b71f27b59666@h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <0cda7201-96b3-4625-a760-f5548658e968@l16g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235490084 22419 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 15:41:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:41:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 24 16:42:40 2009 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 1LbzQ4-0005vB-Cb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:42:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37617 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbzOj-0006YX-Tq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s36g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.223.16.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235489026 7432 127.0.0.1 (24 Feb 2009 15:23:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s36g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=221.223.16.159; posting-account=VidhwQoAAAClDZCDm61050TEZVFYPse- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.1+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167022 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:62324 Archived-At: On Feb 24, 10:29=A0pm, Jonathan Groll wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:21:32PM -0800, Eric wrote: > >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. > > I have the following in my .emacs, if it'll help: > ; Cocoa emacs, for some bizarre reason DELETE key is bound to > backward-delete-char-untabify > ;;and make home and end behave in a non-mac way! > (if (string-match "darwin" (version)) > ( progn > (global-set-key (kbd "") 'delete-char) > (global-set-key (kbd "") 'backward-delete-char) > (global-set-key (kbd "") 'move-beginning-of-line) > (global-set-key (kbd "") 'move-end-of-line) > ) ) > > To give you an idea of how others use it (and you may like pc-type > home, end, delete, backspace keys like I do). > > Cheers, > Jonathan Thanks to all! These are all good suggestions, and I'll probably use them all in various places, where appropriate. E