[1]A fancy Emacs version:

    If you like to play diligently and kindly with the Emacs community,
    you will end up reporting bugs or asking for new features to your
    favourite package maintainers.

    My skills at bug reporting have improved over the years. From the
    angry "it doesn't work, man!!1!" to more polite questions, I am
    always looking for better reports to help debug and solve the
    problems I encounter.

    Usually, package maintainers ask you to reproduce the bug in a clean
    emacs -Q environment. And that's good. But they are also happy when
    you provide as much information as possible about the system you are
    using.

    That's why I came up with a custom function to gather details about
    my Emacs version and where I am running it. It all started with
    [2]this answer from Drew Adams on Emacs StackExchange. His code does
    way much more than I need, though, so I stripped down the
    inessential […]

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  Check out the article for the lisp code.
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  [4]Twitter
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  My original entry is here: [5]A fancy Emacs version. It posted Sat, 26
  May 2018 12:54:29 +0000.
  Filed under: emacs,

References

  1. http://manuel-uberti.github.io//emacs/2018/05/25/display-version/
  2. https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/35497/does-emacs-have-an-option-to-display-build-settings/35500#35500
  3. http://manuel-uberti.github.io/
  4. https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/1000362131341152261
  5. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1144

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