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* Installing emacs 24.4 on Windows 7 - function definition x-send-client-message is void
@ 2015-02-13 11:06 sampson.john7
  2015-02-13 12:46 ` nospam
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From: sampson.john7 @ 2015-02-13 11:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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

Regards

John Sampson


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* Re: Installing emacs 24.4 on Windows 7 - function definition x-send-client-message is void
  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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: nospam @ 2015-02-13 12:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs


sampson.john writes:

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

Hi John,

how did you install Emacs ?

Can you find the executable runemacs.exe somewhere ?

What happens when you run it ?

Martin
--
parozusa at web dot de


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* Re: Installing emacs 24.4 on Windows 7 - function definition x-send-client-message is void
  2015-02-13 12:46 ` nospam
@ 2015-02-13 15:06   ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2015-02-13 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> 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.



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