From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows: Documentation for bin\*.exe Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:54:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201816524 2722 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 21:55:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:55:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 31 22:55:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKhNc-0004w9-Gp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:55:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKhNB-0004qQ-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKhMw-0004gX-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:54:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JKhMu-0004fe-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:54:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKhMu-0004fZ-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JKhMu-0002TS-8h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JKhMm-0002w0-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:54:40 +0000 Original-Received: from p54a949c3.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.169.73.195]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:54:40 +0000 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by p54a949c3.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:54:40 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 62 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54a949c3.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.; yo.b yq4$p; ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GuuWXAYTOHY2OSrwePIKCnB4CUc= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87888 Archived-At: Hi, I didn't get any reply to the message quoted below. Reiner. On Mon, Aug 27 2007, Reiner Steib wrote: > [Disclaimer: I don't have Windows here now to reproduce or lookup the > details, so please correct me if my memory is failing.] > > In Windows' file manager (explorer.exe), you can right click on a file > and select "Open With..." (re-translated from German, I'm not sure > about the exact wording in English) to choose an application for > opening this file (only this time or for the future for this > extension). When I want to select Emacs, I browse to the Emacs\bin > directory and find 14 executables [1]. Okay, I can figure out that > the most promising are emacs.exe, emacsclient.exe, emacsclientw.exe, > and runemacs.exe. runemacs.exe in contrast to emacs.exe doesn't open > a cmd-shell window ("DOS box"). If I have already evaled > `server-start', emacsclient and emacsclientw would be suitable, but > which one? So I did some trial and error and somehow found the right > one. But now Explorer remembered all Emacs executables and in its > selection dialog box (after "Open with...") presents severals > executables but they all have the very same description ("GNU Emacs > for Windows NT/95/98/2000/ME/XP" or similar; FileDescription in > nt/emacs.rc maybe?) and icon (the new Emacs icon). I can't figure out > which one is emacs.exe, emacsclient.exe or emacsclientw.exe. Only > trial and error? (BTW, how to delete existing entries in "Open > With..."?) > > I search for hints in the manual ("grep -nH -e > 'runemacs\|emacsclient\|\.exe' msdo*.texi" doesn't give only two > unrelated hits) and nt/, but I couldn't find anything related the > documentation. > > Suggestions: > > (a) A README file explaining the purpose of the various *.exe files > (especially *emacs*.exe) in the bin directory. > > (b) The description appearing in the "Open with..." dialog should tell > about the purpose of the binary (or at least display name of the > executable). > > Bye, Reiner. > > [1] c:/Programme/GNU/Emacs/bin$ ls -1 *.exe > addpm.exe > cmdproxy.exe > ctags.exe > ddeclient.exe > digest-doc.exe > ebrowse.exe > emacs.exe > emacsclient.exe > emacsclientw.exe > etags.exe > hexl.exe > movemail.exe > runemacs.exe > sorted-doc.exe