How to check which Emacs I am using?

Question

I have two Emacs (Aquamacs and text-based Emacs) on my Mac.

In my .emacs file, I can check if I\'m using Aquamacs with ...

(boundp \'aquamacs-         


        

Answer 1

I know this question was answered a long time ago, but I found another answer by typing emacs --help. This gives a list of options in which you can find emacs --version.

In my case, emacs --version prints: GNU Emacs 24.3.1.

I have only tested this solution on Linux with my current version of Emacs. I do not know if the same solution applies to Windows, or to older versions of Emacs, but in theory it should.