Re: checking emacs version

[Colin S. Miller]

Leo wrote:
> 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
Under xemacs, I use
(setq custom-file (concat "~/.xemacs/custom-" (symbol-name system-type) ".el"))

This allows me to have a different customisation file for each platform I use.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller
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