From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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 13:52:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mtirt1lj.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83czjn2dun.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:30:24 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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?
To be prepared for all eventualities when a user might overwrite a
suggestion of emacsclient? It took many years of Emacs usage before I
understood what emacsclient is.
>> 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.)
Ah right, just considered the installer test.
>> (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.
Sigh, unfortunately yes. Asked the maintainer about the command line
issue, anyway.
And there's also GitGui to consider, which is not a console program
(regarding the choice of emacsclient and emacsclientw)..
Let's see, thank you
Dieter
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-16 12:52 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
2022-02-16 12:52 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
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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