From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to allow -nw to runemacs on w32 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:02:33 +0100 Message-ID: <455B8E79.5060105@student.lu.se> References: <455B19B9.9000004@student.lu.se> <455B7307.4030207@student.lu.se> <455B88CA.4060703@gnu.org> 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 1163628193 29711 80.91.229.2 (15 Nov 2006 22:03:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:03:13 +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 23:03:09 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 1GkSqX-0002Pp-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:03:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkSqW-0003UN-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:03:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkSqD-0003Ry-TC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:02:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GkSqB-0003Qo-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:02:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GkSqB-0003Qi-5x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:02:43 -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 1GkSq9-00062H-Jl; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.254.145.24] (port=62809 helo=[192.168.123.121]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GkSq2-0000FR-6N; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:02:38 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: <455B88CA.4060703@gnu.org> X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GkSq2-0000FR-6N. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GkSq2-0000FR-6N 801654b15d61dc2c0d438a8d5d984487 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:62355 Archived-At: Jason Rumney wrote: > 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. I do not think "emacs -nw" will work in all situations. I believe there should be a GUI version of emacsclient.exe. Does "emacs -nw" work if you use the GUI version? Note: I added a GUI version to gnuclient.exe which I called gnuclientw.exe. The purpose of this was to avoid unnecessary console windows.