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From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:36:43 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c08c6938-83c3-483a-8f10-a1554faf9c98@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.20310.1361217600.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 03:59:43 UTC+8, Ludwig, Mark  wrote:

> For example, on Windows Vista, I used to be able to make a file
> association with .TXT files that invoked emacsclient with the
> --alternate-editor=runemacs option so that if Emacs wasn't
> running, it would be launched.
> 
> In Windows 7 and 8, the GUI simply does not allow any options.

Setting ALTERNATE_EDITOR as an environment variable is an alternative to using the command line option.  At least in Windows 7 environment variables are still accessible from the Advanced properties of "My Computer".



       reply	other threads:[~2013-02-20 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.20310.1361217600.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-20 13:36 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2013-02-21 15:23   ` Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8 Ludwig, Mark
2013-02-21 15:37     ` W. Greenhouse
2013-02-21 15:56   ` Ludwig, Mark
2013-02-20 16:30 Buchs, Kevin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-19 17:36 Buchs, Kevin
2013-02-18 19:59 Ludwig, Mark
2013-02-19 18:44 ` "Jérôme M. Berger"

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