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Torturedly threaded .emacs portability. [Was: jump between if-fi]
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Torturedly threaded .emacs portability. [Was: jump between if-fi] |
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Tue, 1 Jan 2008 15:53:04 +0000 |
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Hi, Reader!
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:29:28PM -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
[ .... ]
> On a slightly different subject... if I may torture the threading
> rules a little:
> Speaking of portability... I'd like to get my emacs init files to be
> more portable from one machine to the next but one I'm dealing with
> now has different keyboard responses than most of the others and
> requires differnt keybindings for delete-backward-char and a few
> other things.
Have a look at the "Key Bindings" in the Emacs FAQ.
There are several variables you can test to find out what system you're
running under: system-type, system-name, .... Have a look at page
"System Interface" in the Elisp manual.
> I'd like to include those in .emacs but don't know how to separate
> them off by making them depend on which host emacs is running on.
> Can you give me a push in that direction?
(if (eq system-type 'gnu/linux)
(progn
....)
(...)
....)
(if (eq window-system 'x) .....) ; See elisp manual page "Window Systems"
> How to access the env variable HOSTNAME or slurp the results of the
> hostname shell command and make the keybindings dependant on the
> results.
(getenv "HOSTNAME") ; See elisp manual page "System Environment"
> I've seen examples of something similar where the code tests if its
> fsf emacs or Xemacs as a condition.
I think you mean "GNU Emacs". ;-) ["fsf emacs" is regarded as rude by
the Emacs project, for reasons I don't fully understand.]
(if (featurep 'xemacs) ....)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany)
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