From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems starting windows compiled help files with start-process Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:43 +0100 Message-ID: <456E3407.5000106@student.lu.se> References: <87d5753f9o.fsf@hans.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164850350 28888 80.91.229.2 (30 Nov 2006 01:32:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:32:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs Devel , Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 02:32:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpamE-0004pB-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:31:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpamE-00069w-G2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:31:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpakY-0004p4-9q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:30:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpakW-0004nb-If for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:30:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpakS-0004lT-7g; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GpakS-0007Fz-16; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62915 helo=[192.168.123.121]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GpakP-0000RJ-63; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:29:58 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Original-To: Dieter Wilhelm In-Reply-To: <87d5753f9o.fsf@hans.local.net> X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GpakP-0000RJ-63. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GpakP-0000RJ-63 792ffe6683b62197844beeb6ebf3bccb 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:63089 gmane.emacs.help:39112 Archived-At: 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.