Re: Carbon emacs (OSX) & /usr/bin/emacs using the same .emacs

[Colin S. Miller]

jOHn wONg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> in my .emac file, I want to load different things onto different emacs
> by a structure such as the followings:
>
> (if (or (eq window-system 'w32) (eq window-system 'win32))
>     (progn
>      (print "we are in windows!")
>      ;; making Emacs to work with Cygwin
>      (setenv "PATH" (concat "C:/cygwin/bin;" (getenv "PATH")))
>      (setq exec-path (cons "C:/cygwin/bin/" exec-path))
>      (require 'setup-cygwin)
>      ;; For subprocesses invoked via the shell
>      ;; (e.g., "shell -c command")
>      (setq shell-file-name explicit-shell-file-name)))
>
> Of course the above is for detecting windows, is there any parameter
> that can let me tell the difference between Carbon Emacs and /usr/bin/
> emacs Emacs (in darwin shell)?
>
> mac-carbon-version-string is present in Carbon Emacs, and /usr/bin/
> emacs is lacking such a variable. However, I do not know how to make
> use of this to write the .emacs file (evaluating mac-carbon-version-
> string will give me a "void-variable" error in /usr/bin/emacs)
>
> Please suggest! Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I don't use Carbon, but you might be able to do something useful
with invocation-path, which contains the directory containing the
current emacs binary.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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