From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: garof@sei.cmu.edu, 15002@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15002: 24.3; W7 right-click "Open with ..." does not associate runemacs.exe
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:16:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lfcn7i57.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2go495c.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 20 Jan 2021 03:47:11 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 03:47:11 +0100
> Cc: 15002@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Joseph Giampapa <garof@sei.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> > 6. <=== The Problem ===>
> > Right click "foo.bib", "bar.tex", or "foobar.txt", "Open with ..." does not
> > allow me to select "C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\emacs-24.3\bin\runemacs.exe".
> > "Open with" presents me with a dialog box. I choose the "Browse..." button,
> > navigate to "runemacs.exe", double-click the file, which populates the text
> > box, but when I press "Open", "runemacs.exe" does not appear in the "Open
> > with" dialog box as a program that I can choose.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got no response at
> the time.)
>
> I can't recall seeing any similar bug reports, so I'm wondering whether
> you're still seeing this in more recent versions of Emacs?
I just tried that, both on Windows 7 and on Windows 10, and the recipe
worked for me in both cases.
So I do think this was something specific to that system, not a
general problem in Emacs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-20 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-01 21:20 bug#15002: 24.3; W7 right-click "Open with ..." does not associate runemacs.exe Joseph Giampapa
2021-01-20 2:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-01-20 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-01-20 16:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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