From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: corwin@bru.st, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows binaries for emacs-28 status and TODOs
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:30:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czjn2dun.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r183ta2c.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de)
> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Cc: corwin@bru.st, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:50:03 +0100
>
> > They should have emacsclient, not Emacs.
>
> Yes, I agree.
>
> But then, the user has to know about emacsclient(w) AND how to set up
> the server beforehand.
No, the user should be able to select emacsclient, and the installer
should produce the actual command using that. Just like with the
other editors they offer.
> I believe it should also work for emacs.exe (which it is) and
> runemacs.exe (which is not working, please see the attached image).
Why is that a good idea?
> Or, even better, suggesting a command line option for emacsclient(w)
> in case the server is not running.
That's what I had in mind. (And no, emacsclientw is NOT the right
choice here, since Git is a console executable.)
> (Unfortunately I couldn't get emacsclient to
> run with a command line option, probably a bug in the Git installer.:-/)
Which seems to indicate that integrating emacsclient into Git is not
as simple as its maintainer thinks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-16 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-23 10:54 Windows binaries for emacs-28 status and TODOs Corwin Brust
2022-01-23 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-23 12:00 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-14 20:03 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-14 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-16 9:50 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-16 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-02-16 12:52 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-16 13:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-16 13:40 ` Corwin Brust
2022-02-16 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-16 14:43 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-16 16:52 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-16 16:37 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-01-26 19:37 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-06 10:40 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2022-02-06 18:35 ` Corwin Brust
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