Variable: emacs-major-version

emacs-major-version is a variable defined in version.el.gz.

Value

29

Documentation

Major version number of this version of Emacs.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.23.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/version.el.gz
;;; version.el --- record version number of Emacs  -*- lexical-binding:t -*-

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;;; Commentary:

;;; Code:

(defconst emacs-major-version
  (progn (string-match "^[0-9]+" emacs-version)
         (string-to-number (match-string 0 emacs-version)))
  "Major version number of this version of Emacs.")