From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs handling multiple versions Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:42:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175704678 31292 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2007 16:37:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:37:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 04 18:37:57 2007 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 1HZ8Ub-0004PW-Vs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:37:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ8Xs-0005o1-OF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:41:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!out04b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in04.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:42:20 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3CcuRvRz5fNn8bHL3swPImUhOfA= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-93szvw2huO9DnROsccrFpMdyPKz2XfI990k2Y8qc2JSYydv/O0aQ7ID957rIdvs8qAl8yOA+wuSOzXe!TVe8zcCMr8S8t1o76eXRfu4QD6iu66ncE1JQfDp1ZB3YIg04/Nbi5/HKgaQrZGsD2t99VmLp0xM4!T5uQ1zfxmLCWEwKf/g== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146814 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:42419 Archived-At: > I'm running Carbon Emacs on OS X as my main Emacs, thus my .emacs file has > a bunch of carbon only hooks in it. However, sometimes I'll use the > terminal emacs (shipped with OS X) and the .emacs file causes problems > calling things that the terminal version can't handle. You can also use CarbonEmacs in a terminal, so you'll get the exact same version in both cases. > I'd like to keep the ability to use both... any suggestions for having > the .emacs file know which version is calling it and respond accordingly? Typically, you'll want to use things like (fboundp 'foo) to check whether the function `foo' exists, before calling it. Tell us more and we'll tell you more. Stefan