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: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:19:12 -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 1235454175 4787 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 05:42:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:42:55 +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 06:44:11 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 1Lbq5Q-0003j5-NV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:44:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52010 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lbq46-00037T-8M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:42:46 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f20g2000yqg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 60 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.121.197.211 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235452752 20233 127.0.0.1 (24 Feb 2009 05:19:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f20g2000yqg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=123.121.197.211; 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:167010 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:62312 Archived-At: On Feb 24, 12:36=A0pm, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article > <0cda7201-96b3-4625-a760-f5548658e...@l16g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>, > > > > > > =A0Eric wrote: > > On Feb 24, 12:07=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > From: Eric > > > > 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 reliab= le > > > > 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 > > > > =A0 =A0(if (>=3D emacs-major-version 21) > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(do-something)) > > > > or more sophisticated > > > > =A0 =A0(if (version<=3D 23.0.98) > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(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? =A0E.g. > > (if (eq window-system 'mac) > =A0 =A0 (do-something)) > > -- > Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu > Arlington, MA > *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** > *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** I'm not sure at all, and that's why I was asking! This is helpful, I'll take a look at this and see what's more appropriate to use. I think there are some variables that are specific to Carbon (ie the name actually starts with carbon), but window system might be better for more general stuff. Thanks a lot! Eric