Re: Patch to allow -nw to runemacs on w32

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:44:25 +0100
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>>
>> In some situations you may want to be able to use the -nw option with 
>> runemacs.exe.
>>     
>
> What are those situations?  We cannot judge the importance of applying
> this patch without knowing when the current behavior is an annoyance.
>   

The situation where I thought the current behaviour was a problem was 
when specifying --alternate-editor to emacsclient. If the user for some 
reason (which I might not understand ;-) wants to run emacs in a 
console, and this should be started through the use of 
--alternate-editor then the simplest way (from a user perspective) to 
get this working might be to do something like

    set alternate_editor=runemacs.exe -nw

If my patch is applied of course. Otherwise the user just gets into the 
trouble we discussed before (hidden emacs or a crashing emacs).