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Dieter Wilhelm" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows binaries for emacs-28 status and TODOs Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:52:56 +0100 Message-ID: <86mtirt1lj.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> References: <83lez6lmym.fsf@gnu.org> <86wnhxdxmp.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <831r05p5fq.fsf@gnu.org> <86r183ta2c.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83czjn2dun.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18646"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: corwin@bru.st, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 16 13:54:29 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 1nKJpE-0004fu-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:54:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50802 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKJpD-0006b1-On for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:54:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKJns-0005GP-Kz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:53:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.133]:51195) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nKJnq-000405-2B; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:53:04 -0500 Original-Received: from ping ([92.116.151.32]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue009 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MOiLv-1ndlZ80sQx-00QCuq; Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:52:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83czjn2dun.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:30:24 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:G+mvQ7z7wAJ7/FNGCUO04x8QIQ5xHI4gAOLIYCATJZQ8dbUR6LF aKXUOX5htyVpxwhdW27+DBakTlgqbWHjcMT9PbLh0x5a6jK9VzgJZ52i9uB1g0Iw2w4VZN4 Djckyx+7hrsNOSyKpYh8ZS0MWaLOQNZjYignroN3RLVeEbEVhA2sKX6PsJyLy2p8UHIVb+R W+AkQ4j6rMRKabCqi1cjw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:705Kl9Lfj00=:2tfy4ds2usjBDANqZpZohc Zij8eqdtJvXCQYI+a+LXa5dz6ADleH5LtZ4yXUVcXnu5SPq1lX5oZ91YSGi8ySjOjyIkq9bxP kLYBsTQYRz3w/dJA0oNSNXVSNzGTsYCcXTRJDFioYYRH+agEz5nvr6r8gHlD9N5SfbKef9+Pa J7pWzIulp7Aj8wFOixGwe7svrjUsvXcjVAZEqERa9vO0ROCDA3eI+lFTIDRo6BkOUHe/B0BKy /hB8lWvftBTyEjxftTe/GEUORg+3r3WES/b//8RdaRmidbEWhjuu+CPqXiidVV8rWbbwwwbe9 W2Radx3RbmQSa9ZVK0SQmkUX8m+EQr4IyRt4lLqeNgvmHNg0Wn/yuL4ljEuS7UjyPV0SQID9+ yiDnu5spaa1bEWK1WSd7NQfJLgW/zlAqKoH4lw4ErETrAvUhVZoZmu99vnefR2T+fByY+dXMR Tdmp/uOKYqB0UbsNsDtDwvoq/3Q3OsPNXNism20dqMw14tzqSpHX6AAve98RAgg4h0laihoGm xBxDr6uu68Cjl//zhraaSRbSV9j2BNBD7wgXLg3NpPBo0GfPP08atgCsNOHZbWd6Y1CCk2KId 5epZQJ/U/gCUOr+RsZwELLfijCdsLltrJitXyYIKQmqhu2Kcjung+jKSK00aYsrivkpealL8j WzpWYPg8MMDgfp7OjpI+7DZVjgkw6YPq6UwJsKwcfXzn2KKYmQCwuyxNSLrchiDgRP490pBIj 3aFUUHkFftqjGsVL Received-SPF: none client-ip=212.227.126.133; envelope-from=dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de; helo=mout.kundenserver.de X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:286381 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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? To be prepared for all eventualities when a user might overwrite a suggestion of emacsclient? It took many years of Emacs usage before I understood what emacsclient is. >> 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.) Ah right, just considered the installer test. >> (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. Sigh, unfortunately yes. Asked the maintainer about the command line issue, anyway. And there's also GitGui to consider, which is not a console program (regarding the choice of emacsclient and emacsclientw).. Let's see, thank you Dieter -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Zwingenberg, Germany