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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:22:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhbz3wle.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1985099315.1630555.1585501310037@mail1.libero.it> (message from Angelo Graziosi on Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:01:50 +0200 (CEST))

> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:01:50 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
> 
> What do I have to do to get back to the way I used to be?

  make install LN_S_FILEONLY='/bin/ln -s'

> BTW, why Emacs, on Windows, has 3 executable?
> 
>   runemacs.exe
>   emacs-27.0.90.exe
>   emacs.exe (hardlink, now)
> 
> Yes, runemacs.exe to remove the DOS window (if I remember): why this
> cannot be done with a single EXE?

Because emacs.exe is a console program, not a GUI program.

> On Windows there ar a lot of apps (IDE, Editore, Browser etc) which have only one EXE to be started with (no DOS window etc).

Those other apps are only GUI, whereas Emacs can be run both as a GUI
and a text-mode program.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-29 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-29 17:01 Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe Angelo Graziosi
2020-03-29 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-03-28 16:53 Juan José García-Ripoll
2020-03-28 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-28 20:41   ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2020-03-28 22:45     ` Phillip Lord
2020-03-29  2:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-29  9:38       ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2020-03-29 13:08         ` Phillip Lord
2020-03-29 14:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-28 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-28 20:13   ` Phillip Lord
2020-03-28 20:48     ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2020-03-28 22:22       ` Phillip Lord
2020-03-28 23:36         ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2020-03-29 12:55           ` Phillip Lord
2020-03-29  2:27     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-29 12:52       ` Phillip Lord
2020-03-29 13:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-29 17:25           ` Phillip Lord
2020-03-28 23:36   ` Juan José García-Ripoll
2020-03-29  2:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-29 12:59       ` Phillip Lord
2020-03-29 13:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-29 18:18           ` Phillip Lord
2020-03-29 18:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-29 20:49               ` Phillip Lord

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