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One .emacs for three operating system
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Eric Lilja |
Subject: |
One .emacs for three operating system |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:45:52 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) |
Hello, I run emacs under windows xp, fedora 7 and solaris (unknown
version). I want to use the same .emacs for all three operating systems.
On Windows and fedora I have 22.1 or later, on Solaris I have 21.4
because the admins don't like to upgrade software at all, it seems.
Anyway, I have a few things I need to do differently on Solaris so I've
been trying to determine if I'm running Solaris by checking the value of
$HOME (crude, I know, I'd like to hear of a better way). Since I don't
know lisp this is not trivial for me.
First I did (in scratch):
(getenv "HOME")C-j
Prints expected string.
Then I tried to do a comparison
(if (eq (getenv "HOME") "/home/on/solaris")
(message "Duh")
)C-j
but I get the output Nil from that.
So I thought that maybe it doens't like the nested getenv call for some
reason, so I tried.
(setq u (getenv "HOME"))C-j
Ok, prints expected result.
But then I noticed something that's odd to me who doesn't know lisp, if I do
(print u)C-j
it prints the home directory twice...so I started to wondering if u
contains the string once or twice... When I tried use the variable u in
the if statement instead of the nested getenv call the result was Nil
once again.
anyway, as you can see I'm really confused, I just want to add some
if/else-statements to my emacs.
if running-under-solaris is true
do this
else ; assume we are running under winxp or fedora7
do that
- Eric
- One .emacs for three operating system,
Eric Lilja <=