I have two versions of emacs on my Windows 7 box: Cygwin's and a native Windows one. Each one has its own .emacs file, distinguished by different HOME environment variables. This generally works: when I launch Cygwin's emacs it uses $HOME/.emacs; when I launch Windows emacs, It /generally/ uses the Windows %HOME%/.emacs file, but there's a catch: When I launch a Windows application from within Cygwin, e.g. ClearCase Explorer, and from that Windows app I open a file in emacs, because the Windows app has inherited my Cygwin environment, it uses my Cygwin .emacs file, not my Windows one.
Ideally, I could unify the two .emacs files, but that presents another problem: I want the menu to be disabled in the character-cell Cygwin console (mintty) where it is useless, but it is useful in the Windows emacs, so how do I test within a unified .emacs file which binary I'm using so that I can conditionally control the menu bar? FWIW, the command to disable the menu is: (menu-bar-mode 0) Without a solution to a unified .emacs, I wonder how to associate a .emacs file with a particular emacs binary. -Ken Nellis -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
