From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server - getting paper size Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:42:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <42D75F2C.3040303@student.lu.se> <85zmso79mt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42D7AA3E.7040508@student.lu.se> <85ll48tfct.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42D7B125.6030102@student.lu.se> <854qawt85l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42D7EB78.9050901@student.lu.se> <85ll48rnzt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <42D7F881.2080302@student.lu.se> <42D82D20.2030505@student.lu.se> <42D8E144.3070407@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121515938 16342 80.91.229.2 (16 Jul 2005 12:12:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:12:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 16 14:12:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtlWR-00012k-6U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:11:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtlYG-0004lM-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 08:13:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DtlRC-0000j2-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 08:06:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DtlRA-0000hX-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 08:06:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtlM8-0007aQ-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 08:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DtlDI-0000Px-VE; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:52:13 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6GBhKch017393; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:43:20 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10ADDDDD64; Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:43:45 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <42D8E144.3070407@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:28:20 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40999 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40999 Lennart Borgman writes: > A note for non w32 users: On w32 application paths are (if the > installation process is welbehaved) stored in a Registry key under > "App Paths" (with a path prepended, the registry has an hierarchical > view looking like a tree structured file system). This is misleading. The "App Paths" registry key is used for finding DLLs loaded by that application. Nothing more. To find this registry key requires knowing where the executable file it, since the path to this key within the registry is stored in the executable itself.