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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Installing emacs 24.4 on Windows 7 - function definition	x-send-client-message is void
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:06:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d25d4zrq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86d25egeso.fsf@web.de>

> From: nospam@nospam.com
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 13:46:15 +0100
> 
> > I have installed Emacs on Windows 7, but it comes up with this
> > initialization warning. It advises to start Emacs with the
> > --debug-init option, but I am not an expert and the error trace is
> > incomprehensible. What is this about?

Your ~/.emacs file does something that Emacs cannot do, at least not n
Windows.

> > What should the definition of x-send-client-message be?

There's no such function in the Windows version of Emacs.  This
function belongs to DND (Drag-n-drop) implementation on X, but not on
Windows.  If your ~/.emacs tries to call it, you need to condition
that call on system-type not being 'windows-nt'.

> how did you install Emacs ?
> 
> Can you find the executable runemacs.exe somewhere ?
> 
> What happens when you run it ?

All good questions, IMO.



      reply	other threads:[~2015-02-13 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-13 11:06 Installing emacs 24.4 on Windows 7 - function definition x-send-client-message is void sampson.john7
2015-02-13 12:46 ` nospam
2015-02-13 15:06   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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