From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows binaries for emacs-28 status and TODOs Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:30:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83czjn2dun.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lez6lmym.fsf@gnu.org> <86wnhxdxmp.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <831r05p5fq.fsf@gnu.org> <86r183ta2c.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8722"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: corwin@bru.st, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 16 13:36:38 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nKJXx-00026D-6U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:36:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39700 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKJXv-0006rP-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:36:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKJRt-0001Mt-FN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:30:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=50878 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKJRs-00087A-Ah; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:30:20 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=SiENGgebpdZJ7kcLq+4ZhGMuhrbVg98Fg7JzdsEmWK8=; b=HWnxK+ub7vM/ jdptt8qpJVghUvFhB8euoeRxvYr01EWyVl4CR38yBsnsCJeS9rHPG8pN3usCy71naBaWvSF1im+/E Sd3bfLco1FcVU3mxCxIHu6aM2uHStlWJWrdfPOJyL8/3t+5MvyZgjjKho1sL1FeEsgcPo36vadals PYlBMsBNEuzATJgpw4Mw0On9A9nNb9P/aBcodIYWqM/k5YS7DkSvv7//nRsvCarPxiyRktIW48G/0 sTPOusQbUnJ9qpZkhMCJGB2lWcqxGHZ1sw4+CpvEVZXHmxM7n5zUY3GWjLxVVbfu1sBWYK3MrzW/s MbbRBMRvfTIdo+Xy1NNmdQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3788 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKJRr-00011g-IW; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:30:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86r183ta2c.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286378 Archived-At: > From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" > Cc: corwin@bru.st, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:50:03 +0100 > > > They should have emacsclient, not Emacs. > > Yes, I agree. > > But then, the user has to know about emacsclient(w) AND how to set up > the server beforehand. No, the user should be able to select emacsclient, and the installer should produce the actual command using that. Just like with the other editors they offer. > I believe it should also work for emacs.exe (which it is) and > runemacs.exe (which is not working, please see the attached image). Why is that a good idea? > Or, even better, suggesting a command line option for emacsclient(w) > in case the server is not running. That's what I had in mind. (And no, emacsclientw is NOT the right choice here, since Git is a console executable.) > (Unfortunately I couldn't get emacsclient to > run with a command line option, probably a bug in the Git installer.:-/) Which seems to indicate that integrating emacsclient into Git is not as simple as its maintainer thinks.