From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Buchs, Kevin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:30:35 -0600 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361377857 29223 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2013 16:30:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:30:57 +0000 (UTC) To: , "J?r?me M. Berger" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 17:31:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U8CZh-00085o-Ov for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:31:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8CZM-0004U2-T4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:30:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8CZA-0004SE-76 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:30:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8CZ3-0005Bk-JM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:30:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail10.mayo.edu ([129.176.212.47]:62082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8CZ3-0005BX-C3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:30:37 -0500 Original-Received: from roedlp005a.mayo.edu (HELO mail10.mayo.edu) ([129.176.158.0]) by ironport10-dlp.mayo.edu with ESMTP; 20 Feb 2013 10:30:36 -0600 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAFAPb4JFGBsNQ1/2dsb2JhbABCA8BXgQAWc4IfAQEBBDAKSwYBCCIGGAdIAQ4BBAESCBaHdLdIiQOOXSEogk5hA4hmjUaQW4Mm Original-Received: from mhro1a.mayo.edu ([129.176.212.53]) by ironport10.mayo.edu with ESMTP; 20 Feb 2013 10:30:36 -0600 Original-Received: from smtprelay-older.mayo.edu (ironreport.mayo.edu [129.176.212.32]) by mhro1a.mayo.edu with ESMTP id BT-MMP-1456415 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:30:36 -0600 Original-Received: from essexhb.mayo.edu (HELO MACE.mayo.edu) ([172.31.128.12]) by smtprelay4.mayo.edu with ESMTP; 20 Feb 2013 10:30:36 -0600 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8 Thread-Index: Ac4Ph0zs53lODm0ZRYeSPE1dL6scLw== X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 129.176.212.47 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89189 Archived-At: Jerome,=20 I think Mark was speaking of setting up a file association, so, for example, all files with .TXT extension will open emacsclient. That is the part that is restricted in Win-7 or worse. Setting up a shortcut is still easy to do, like you describe. Kevin Buchs | Senior Engineer | SPPDG | 507-538-5459 | buchs.kevin@mayo.edu Mayo Clinic | 200 First Street SW | Rochester, MN 55905 | http://www.mayo.edu -----Original Message----- I use emacsclient with the --alternate-editor=3Drunemacs option in Windows 7. Can't remember for sure how I set it up (I'm at home on Linux right now), but I'm sure I did it from the GUI without any fancy registry editing or stuff. IIRC you need to first create the shortcut without specifying command line options, then go to the shortcut properties (with A-RET or the context menu) where you should find a field to add the options (can't remember whether there is a specific field or whether you can add the options directly after the executable name).