emacsclient and gnuclient on msw2000

emacsclient and gnuclient on msw2000

[B. T. Raven]

I want to associate certain file extensions with Emacs so that a new 
instance of Emacs is not opened when a file is clicked on. Is it 
possible to do this in a w32 environment? Recently I saw this in the ng 
but I don't understand it:

"
REM $Id: emacsassoc.bat,v 1.1 2003/01/10 08:21:27 reichr Exp $
REM You should adjust the path to gnuclientw.exe
REM %%1 is needed for 4nt, %1 can be used for cmd.exe

ftype emacs-file=c:\emacs\bin\gnuclientw.exe -q -F "%%1"
assoc .vhdl=emacs-file
assoc .vhd=emacs-file
assoc .v=emacs-file
assoc .c=emacs-file
assoc .txt=emacs-file
assoc .el=emacs-file
assoc .tex=emacs-file
"

I have changed the path to match my local one but I see that in the bin 
directory I have emacsclientw and not gnuclient.

I have deleted the .txt association (with Notepad) from the w2000 
extensions and I wanted to do something like in the above example to 
have any .txt file opened in a buffer in an already open emacs instance.
Is that possible?

My version is 22.1

Thanks,
Ed

Re: emacsclient and gnuclient on msw2000

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> I want to associate certain file extensions with Emacs so that a new 
> instance of Emacs is not opened when a file is clicked on. Is it 
> possible to do this in a w32 environment? Recently I saw this in the ng 
> but I don't understand it:
> 
> "
> REM $Id: emacsassoc.bat,v 1.1 2003/01/10 08:21:27 reichr Exp $
> REM You should adjust the path to gnuclientw.exe
> REM %%1 is needed for 4nt, %1 can be used for cmd.exe
> 
> ftype emacs-file=c:\emacs\bin\gnuclientw.exe -q -F "%%1"
> assoc .vhdl=emacs-file
> assoc .vhd=emacs-file
> assoc .v=emacs-file
> assoc .c=emacs-file
> assoc .txt=emacs-file
> assoc .el=emacs-file
> assoc .tex=emacs-file
> "
> 
> I have changed the path to match my local one but I see that in the bin 
> directory I have emacsclientw and not gnuclient.
> 
> I have deleted the .txt association (with Notepad) from the w2000 
> extensions and I wanted to do something like in the above example to 
> have any .txt file opened in a buffer in an already open emacs instance.
> Is that possible?
> 
> My version is 22.1

Hi Ed,

There are some brief instructions here

   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoFileAssociations

Notice that with Emacs 22 you can use emacsclientw.exe instead of 
gnuclientw.exe.

Re: emacsclient and gnuclient on msw2000

[B. T. Raven]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> B. T. Raven wrote:
>> I want to associate certain file extensions with Emacs so that a new 
>> instance of Emacs is not opened when a file is clicked on. Is it 
>> possible to do this in a w32 environment? Recently I saw this in the 
>> ng but I don't understand it:
>>
>> "
>> REM $Id: emacsassoc.bat,v 1.1 2003/01/10 08:21:27 reichr Exp $
>> REM You should adjust the path to gnuclientw.exe
>> REM %%1 is needed for 4nt, %1 can be used for cmd.exe
>>
>> ftype emacs-file=c:\emacs\bin\gnuclientw.exe -q -F "%%1"
>> assoc .vhdl=emacs-file
>> assoc .vhd=emacs-file
>> assoc .v=emacs-file
>> assoc .c=emacs-file
>> assoc .txt=emacs-file
>> assoc .el=emacs-file
>> assoc .tex=emacs-file
>> "
>>
>> I have changed the path to match my local one but I see that in the 
>> bin directory I have emacsclientw and not gnuclient.
>>
>> I have deleted the .txt association (with Notepad) from the w2000 
>> extensions and I wanted to do something like in the above example to 
>> have any .txt file opened in a buffer in an already open emacs instance.
>> Is that possible?
>>
>> My version is 22.1
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
> There are some brief instructions here
> 
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoFileAssociations
> 
> Notice that with Emacs 22 you can use emacsclientw.exe instead of 
> gnuclientw.exe.
> 
> 


Thanks, Lennart. I couldn't figure out how to do the following and I was 
nervous about diddling with the registry anyway:

1. Add the registry key as described above, i.e.

   [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\openwemacs\command] ;;; I don't understand 
this

2. Set the value of command to the following, adjusting the path as 
necessary:

   C:\emacs-22\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe -n "%1"

The fact that this might not work if emacs weren't running wouldn't be a 
problem since emacs is the first thing I start anyway after booting.

What I did in a cmd shell was:

ftype emacs=c:\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe -n "%1"

and then

assoc .txt=emacs

and now from regedit I see:

hkey_classes_root > .txt
emacs

but below .txt > shell > open > command

there is still notepad.exe

If for now I am satisfied with having only .txt files automatically 
opened with emacsclient, what other registry surgery do I have to do?
My assigning a value to directly to .txt seems to be short circuiting 
the notepad command.

Anyway it works as long as I do M-x server-start (or put (server-start) 
in .emacs

Thanks again,

Ed

Re: emacsclient and gnuclient on msw2000

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

> Thanks, Lennart. I couldn't figure out how to do the following and I was 
> nervous about diddling with the registry anyway:
> 
> 1. Add the registry key as described above, i.e.
> 
>   [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\openwemacs\command] ;;; I don't understand 
> this
> 
> 2. Set the value of command to the following, adjusting the path as 
> necessary:
> 
>   C:\emacs-22\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe -n "%1"


Instead of editing the registry keys directly you can in Windows 
Explorer from the menus choose

   Tools - Folder Options

and then the tab "File Types".