From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: windows setup for emacsclient Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <94214c87-1b2c-48e8-b63d-302f015e54d6@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: <2YidnVdFUe41PEHanZ2dnUVZ_ournZ2d@sysmatrix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205743259 3455 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2008 08:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 17 09:41:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JbAuK-0002fZ-FD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:41:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JbAtk-0000VY-Rn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:40:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 84 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.225.70.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1205740546 5866 127.0.0.1 (17 Mar 2008 07:55:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=220.225.70.2; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 EINSTEIN X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157088 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52454 Archived-At: On Mar 16, 10:27 am, "B. T. Raven" wrote: > rustom wrote: > > What do I have to do to open a file with emacsclient in windows? > > > Yeah I know one must first start emacs with server-start -- I am > > wondering about the more windows-y part. I am, say, in windows > > explorer and want to right-click file and choose open in emacsclient. > > I can even do it now but I have to literally go hunting after it: > > Shift-rt-click -> Open with ->Browse -> Program Files... -> emacs -> > > bin -> emacsclientw -> Ok ... -> Ok > > ...... every time the same bally-hoo. > > > Related to this: How to give the -n option? Because otherwise when I > > kill that buffer emacs pops a window at me saying the client is still > > waiting for the server or some such thing. > > Go to a msdos prompt and type something like: > > ftype emacs=c:\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe -n "%1" > > but with your appropriate path (you can call the part before = whatever > you want) > > and then (for example): > > assoc .txt=emacs > > Then with regedit make a key > > HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\emacsclientw.exe\shell\Open\Command > > with value: > > c:\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe -n "%1" > > with -a switch you can add an alternate editor. I have seen this set to > /path/runemacs.exe See: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsClient > > under emacsclientw for vers. 22 > > Also under shell (i.e) > > HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\emacsclientw.exe\shell > > I have two names: > > FriendlyCache > FrienllyCacheCTime > > of types REG_SZ and REG_BINARY respectively and values > > GNU Emacs for Windows NT/95/98/2000/ME/XP > and > 00 46 bf f2 04 c1 c7 01 > > I have no idea what they are or where they came from. > > You can associate other filetypes with Emacs via assoc in a dos window > or else use Tools > Folder Options > File Types in Windows Explorer. > > Back up the registry before you mess with it. It is intrinsically > dangerous to edit it manually. It may be possible to accomplish the > above without regedit but I don't know how to do it. > > Ed Thanks for the detailed reply. But still some problems: What Ive done is ftype emacs=c:\emacs22.1\bin\emacsclientw -n -a c:/emacs22.1\bin \emacs "%1" assoc .txt=emacs Now when emacs (the server) is already running it works fine. But if not: 1. A box comes up saying emacsclient ERROR: connect no error Ive to click ok to that 2. Next a command window opens momentarily 3. Finally emacs opens with the file And the command window remains open