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Re: Torturedly threaded .emacs portability. [Was: jump between if-fi]
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Re: Torturedly threaded .emacs portability. [Was: jump between if-fi] |
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Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:53:34 -0600 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> 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.
[...]
> (getenv "HOSTNAME") ; See elisp manual page "System Environment"
Another big thank you for the examples and citations of where to
look.