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Asked: 2026-05-18T07:39:17+00:00

Is there an Elisp command which can return Mac, Windows, linux, etc??

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Is there an Elisp command which can return “Mac”, “Windows”, “linux”, etc??

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    system-type is a variable defined in `C source code’.
    Its value is gnu/linux

    Documentation:
    The value is a symbol indicating the type of operating system you are using.
    Special values:

      `gnu'          compiled for a GNU Hurd system.
  `gnu/linux'    compiled for a GNU/Linux system.
  `gnu/kfreebsd' compiled for a GNU system with a FreeBSD kernel.
  `darwin'       compiled for Darwin (GNU-Darwin, Mac OS X, ...).
  `ms-dos'       compiled as an MS-DOS application.
  `windows-nt'   compiled as a native W32 application.
  `cygwin'       compiled using the Cygwin library.

    Anything else (in Emacs 23.1, the possibilities are: aix, berkeley-unix,
    hpux, irix, lynxos 3.0.1, usg-unix-v) indicates some sort of Unix system.

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