From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to allow -nw to runemacs on w32 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:38:18 +0000 Message-ID: <455B88CA.4060703@gnu.org> References: <455B19B9.9000004@student.lu.se> <455B7307.4030207@student.lu.se> 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 1163626868 25060 80.91.229.2 (15 Nov 2006 21:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 15 22:41:04 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 1GkSUe-0006tB-Hh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkSTu-0003Hw-My for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:39:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkSTg-0003Fc-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:39:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkSTd-0003EJ-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:39:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkSTd-0003EA-Lh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:39:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GkSTQ-0005gz-Fj; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:39:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GkSSi-0008T6-3G; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:38:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6DA50AFD; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:38:27 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <455B7307.4030207@student.lu.se> 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:62354 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote: > 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 The simplest way is emacs -nw. Why would they use runemacs? If they are used to running emacs -nw, then they would have learnt quickly that runemacs is not suitable.