From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: checking emacs version Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:35:44 +0000 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <643cd3d3-5a51-41ce-b830-b71f27b59666@h5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235468441 10876 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2009 09:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:40:41 +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 10:41:58 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 1LbtnZ-0006nA-Me for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:41:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbtmA-0004Mu-6g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:40:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lbtln-0004M7-EX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lbtlk-0004JG-FL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43744 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lbtlk-0004J5-Cr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39155 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lbtlj-0001HT-SJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lbtli-0001iq-IK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:40:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rftSGIKu+Mfglu2l0eZ5bZijSZ8= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:62319 Archived-At: On 2009-02-24 02:59 +0000, Eric wrote: > 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? `system-type' > Thanks, > Eric -- .: Leo :. [ sdl.web AT gmail.com ] .: I use Emacs :.