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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggestion for user-emacs-directory
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 11:20:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh7scdzex.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN6PR01MB4493E256267B04A9ECCEAB329B2A0@SN6PR01MB4493.prod.exchangelabs.com> (David Masterson's message of "Fri, 04 Sep 2020 22:58:15 -0700")

> How do you deal with packages that don't exist in earlier Emacsen?

Usually with

    (if (fboundp '<something>)
      ...)

or

    (if (boundp '<something>)
      ...)

or even

    (ignore-errors ...)


-- Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-05 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-04 10:51 suggestion for user-emacs-directory Dieter Faulbaum
2020-09-04 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-05  5:58   ` David Masterson
2020-09-05 15:20     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-09-06 22:22       ` David Masterson
2020-09-10  4:24   ` Bob Newell

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