From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:36:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361384348 552 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2013 18:19:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 19:19:30 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 1U8EGP-0002d2-Ky for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:19:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8D2I-0007tu-Vb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:00:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U89qp-0006Xd-CI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:36:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U89qn-0003Ty-2k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:36:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-f184.google.com ([209.85.214.184]:58948) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U89qm-0003Tp-Uw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:36:45 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-ob0-f184.google.com with SMTP id va7so3233191obc.11 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:36:43 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.38.194 with SMTP id i2mr1658784qek.30.1361367403419; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:36:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=180.75.39.180; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 180.75.39.180 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-IP: 180.75.39.180 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.214.184 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:00:44 -0500 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:89194 Archived-At: 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".