Re: Windows binaries for emacs-28 status and TODOs

["H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 7:32 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
>>> > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 13:52:56 +0100
>>> >
>>> > And there's also GitGui to consider, which is not a console program
>>> > (regarding the choice of emacsclient and emacsclientw)..
>>>
>>> That one should use emacsclientw.
>>
>> Eli,
>>
>> Can you share your incantation to launch emacsclient?  I normally
>> launch using the below.
>>
>> C:\emacs-28.0.91\bin\emacsclientw.exe -n -a "" -eval "(raise-frame)"
>
> Hi Corwin, why --no-wait?
>
>> I haven't tried to configure it as the editor for git-for-windows yet
>> but I'm interested to try it out.
>
> If you have a running Emacs already with M-x server-start, or in the
> init file.  Then pointing the installer to
>
>   C:\emacs-28.0.91\bin\emacsclientw.exe
>
> without any options was enough in my case to get the test file in my
> Emacs GUI frame.

Yep, but only for the installer tests.. 

 After actually using Git Bash I realised that the installer doesn't
change the global git configuration file

  ~/.gitconfig

when there's an editor line already there, no matter what the installer
gets fed.

At last I got emacsclient to run from Git Bash but, funnily, only with
the last line!?  (Please note the quotes and /C/ without colons.)

  [core]
  #	editor = \"C:/Program Files (x86)/GitExtensions/GitExtensions.exe\" fileeditor
  #	editor = /C/Program Files/Emacs/emacs-28.0.91/bin/emacsclient.exe --alternate-editor=\"\"
          editor = \"/C/Program Files/Emacs/emacs-28.0.91/bin/emacsclient.exe\" --alternate-editor=\"\"
  

Possibly using backlashes might also be a permissible pattern but I've
got enough for today.

Have a good time

  Dieter