> "Nellis, Kenneth" <kenneth.nel...@xerox.com> wrote: > > 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)
You can use the system-type variable: (when (eq system-type 'cygwin) (menu-bar-mode 0)) But, I would rather start /usr/bin/emacs-w32.exe of cygwin. Just soft-link /etc/alternatives/emacs to /usr/bin/emacs-w32.exe. Best regards, Tobias -- 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