[Now ccing to emacs-devel]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 1:20 PM Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com> wrote:

> An alternative would be:
>
> * get those other applications fixed;
>

Really? If you answer to a real-world problem is "fix the world" why even
bother answering?


>
> > * for this part of the change to be reverted in Emacs;
> >
> > * for me to set the correct environment var from the Windows shortcut
> >   that points to runemacs.exe. Can it be done easily?
>
> Easiest is probably to change it to run a .cmd file that sets the
> variable and then runs runemacs.exe, if you don’t mind a useless
> console window. If you do, you’ll probably need to write and compile a
> (GUI-targeted but windowless) program in a language of your choice,
> that runs runemacs.exe with a modified environment.
>

At which point I might as well fix it in my Emacs config, which has ample
facilities for this, and which I would do if this weren't such an early
thing.