Re: A DOS box starting Emacs (w32)

[Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>]

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com> 
wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK, what "runemacs.exe" does is to asynchronously invoke
> > "emacs.exe" and then close/kill the CMD window.  Wouldn't it be
> > possible to achieve the same behavior from "emacs.exe"?
> 
> IIRC, it would be possible, but then you would see the console being
> opened and then hidden, which is ugly. You could work around it by
> setting a shortcut to start Emacs hidden, but that doesn't help when
> you run emacs.exe directly from the Start menu, for example. The whole
> runemacs/emacs dance is here to avoid that initial "open console /
> hide console" ugliness.
> 
>     J
> 

AFAIK, there is no clean solution to build an app which is both a console 
app and a gui app.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/01/01/9259142.aspx

Anyway, if you dare to use it, you can try my own binaries for Emacs-W64 :

http://semantic.supelec.fr/popineau/programming-emacs.html#sec-2

There is a version of emacsclient borrowed from EmacsW32 which is more 
friendly than the pair runemacs/emacs .

Basically, emacsclient is used to launch emacs and no console show off.

Fabrice
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