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Re: About `name' in loadup.el
From: |
Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: About `name' in loadup.el |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Mar 2013 01:44:36 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
> In lisp/loadup.el:
>
> (let ((name (concat "emacs-" emacs-version)))
> (while (string-match "[^-+_.a-zA-Z0-9]+" name)
> (setq name (concat (downcase (substring name 0 (match-beginning 0)))
> "-"
> (substring name (match-end 0)))))
> (message "Adding name %s" name)
> (add-name-to-file "emacs" name t))
>
> I'm confused here. What does this fragment of code do? And when will
> characters other than "-+_.a-zA-Z0-9" be in `emacs-version'?
When you run Xemacs, or some other emacs:
emacs-version --> "21.4 (patch 22) \"Instant Classic\" XEmacs Lucid"
> Can anybody help?
Probably.
> Thanks.
You're welcome.
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