Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process

Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process

[Lennart Borgman]

Dieter Wilhelm wrote:

>> Have you tried using `w32-shell-execute'?
>>
>> (w32-shell-execute "Open" "blabla.chm")
> 
> Exactly what I needed, works perfect, thank you.
> 
> Sad that these functions are not mentioned in the Emacs manual for
> (emacs)Windows Processes.  I'm coding mostly under Linux and the w32-*
> functions are not available when trying `describe-function'.


That is because no one has had the time to rewrite that part.

Reading that part I also found that it is about running DOS processes on 
MS Windows. I suggest that we rename to to reflect this.

Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:43 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
> 	Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>
> 
> That is because no one has had the time to rewrite that part.
> 
> Reading that part I also found that it is about running DOS processes on 
> MS Windows. I suggest that we rename to to reflect this.

What version of which manual are you reading?  In the CVS version (and
the one distributed with the pretest), the MS-Windows part _was_
rewritten, and the node's name is "Windows processes".

Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:43 +0100
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>> 	Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>
>>
>> That is because no one has had the time to rewrite that part.
>>
>> Reading that part I also found that it is about running DOS processes on 
>> MS Windows. I suggest that we rename to to reflect this.
> 
> What version of which manual are you reading?  In the CVS version (and
> the one distributed with the pretest), the MS-Windows part _was_
> rewritten, and the node's name is "Windows processes".


The CVS version.

Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:11:29 +0100
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> CC:  dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de,  brakjoller@gmail.com, 
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:43 +0100
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> >> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
> >> 	Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>
> >>
> >> That is because no one has had the time to rewrite that part.
> >>
> >> Reading that part I also found that it is about running DOS processes on 
> >> MS Windows. I suggest that we rename to to reflect this.
> > 
> > What version of which manual are you reading?  In the CVS version (and
> > the one distributed with the pretest), the MS-Windows part _was_
> > rewritten, and the node's name is "Windows processes".
> 
> 
> The CVS version.

Then please explain what places did you want to be changed to talk
about Windows as opposed to DOS.  I really think the rewrite you were
asking for was done already, but maybe I missed some places when I did
that.

Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:11:29 +0100
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>> CC:  dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de,  brakjoller@gmail.com, 
>>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>>> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:43 +0100
>>>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>>>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>>>> 	Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> That is because no one has had the time to rewrite that part.
>>>>
>>>> Reading that part I also found that it is about running DOS processes on 
>>>> MS Windows. I suggest that we rename to to reflect this.
>>> What version of which manual are you reading?  In the CVS version (and
>>> the one distributed with the pretest), the MS-Windows part _was_
>>> rewritten, and the node's name is "Windows processes".
>>
>> The CVS version.
> 
> Then please explain what places did you want to be changed to talk
> about Windows as opposed to DOS.  I really think the rewrite you were
> asking for was done already, but maybe I missed some places when I did
> that.


I think the original poster has explained now what he missed there. I 
would suggest adding that and pushing much of the current node into a 
subnode about DOS subprocesses. This material might still be valuable, 
but it is not that common to use DOS subprocesses any more I guess.