bug#15265: Emacsclient (Win32) has no "ignore parameter" parameter

bug#15265: Emacsclient (Win32) has no "ignore parameter" parameter

[Glenn Morris]

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From: jens.k.loewe@googlemail.com (Jens K. Loewe)
Subject: Emacsclient (Win32) has no "ignore parameter" parameter

Probably this is rather a feature request than a bug report (there is no
gnu.emacs.requests group AFAICS):

I would like to replace notepad.exe calls on Windows with emacsclientw
calls. A common workaround for that is to use the "Debugger" registry
entry [1] which sends all calls to notepad.exe to a "debugger" process -
usually another text editor.

This, however, also sends a "notepad.exe" parameter to the given client,
so if I define the notepad.exe debugger as "emacsclientw -na
runemacs.exe", it opens notepad.exe (as text) in Emacs.

GVim, for example, just ignores that parameter, other text editors like
Notepad2 and AkelPad use a "/z" parameter, meaning "ignore the next
parameter", for that. In emacsclientw, my chosen workaround is to add
the "-F" parameter. [2] This is a dirty solution but it somehow works.

So my feature request is: Add a parameter to emacsclientw which means
"ignore the following parameter". :-)


[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2984846/set-image-file-execution-options-will-always-open-the-named-exe-file-as-defaul
[2] http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/1294/itu.png

bug#15265: Emacsclient (Win32) has no "ignore parameter" parameter

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

jens.k.loewe@googlemail.com (Jens K. Loewe) writes:

> I would like to replace notepad.exe calls on Windows with emacsclientw
> calls. A common workaround for that is to use the "Debugger" registry
> entry [1] which sends all calls to notepad.exe to a "debugger" process -
> usually another text editor.
>
> This, however, also sends a "notepad.exe" parameter to the given client,
> so if I define the notepad.exe debugger as "emacsclientw -na
> runemacs.exe", it opens notepad.exe (as text) in Emacs.
>
> GVim, for example, just ignores that parameter, other text editors like
> Notepad2 and AkelPad use a "/z" parameter, meaning "ignore the next
> parameter", for that. In emacsclientw, my chosen workaround is to add
> the "-F" parameter. [2] This is a dirty solution but it somehow works.
>
> So my feature request is: Add a parameter to emacsclientw which means
> "ignore the following parameter". :-)

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

I think that this sounds like too specialised behaviour to warrant
adding a new parameter to emacsclient.  It should be trivial to write a
wrapper script that does exactly what you want here (i.e., just call
emacsclient without the first parameter).

So I'm closing this bug report.

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