From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: 38367@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38367: 26.3; Cannot start Emacs with -nw option, starting with Emacs 26.1
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 19:22:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736dwvvv5.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SQHiMQ5E=bZshr0fGVc7AVX9wn6yDZwC1r3Y9GbwpbOsQ@mail.gmail.com>
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 10:33 AM martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> wrote:
>
>> This is a nice summary. Couldn't we add it somewhere to nt/README?
>
> I think it would add confusion. If anything, perhaps nt/README should be a
> bit more specific about what to do if the user wants to run a console emacs.
> Currently it just says:
>
> + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run
> as both a text-mode application (emacs -nw) and as a GUI application,
> it will pop up a command prompt window if run directly from Explorer.
>
> + runemacs.exe - A wrapper for running Emacs as a GUI application
> without popping up a command prompt window. If you create a
> desktop shortcut for invoking Emacs, make it point to this
> executable, not to emacs.exe.
Which is to the point and just fine, isn't it? Possibly consider
changing "text-mode" to "command prompt" since that wording is used
later in the sentence (in the first bullet).
diff --git a/nt/README b/nt/README
index de68162131..aa5be96f56 100644
--- a/nt/README
+++ b/nt/README
@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@
files in the bin directory.
+ emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run
- as both a text-mode application (emacs -nw) and as a GUI application,
- it will pop up a command prompt window if run directly from Explorer.
+ as both a command prompt application (emacs -nw) and as a GUI
+ application, it will pop up a command prompt window as well, if run
+ directly from Explorer.
+ runemacs.exe - A wrapper for running Emacs as a GUI application
without popping up a command prompt window. If you create a
Best regards
--
Tomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-07 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-25 2:21 bug#38367: 26.3; Cannot start Emacs with -nw option, starting with Emacs 26.1 Drew Adams
2019-11-25 22:48 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-26 0:55 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-26 2:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-26 6:15 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-26 9:33 ` martin rudalics
2019-11-26 13:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-12-07 18:22 ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
2019-12-08 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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