From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EmacsW32 invocation options Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 06:00:08 +0300 Message-ID: References: <59osrdF2m97hgU1@mid.individual.net> <4637A396.9000300@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178074849 16285 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2007 03:00:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 03:00:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 02 05:00:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hj557-0007CQ-C7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 05:00:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hj5BT-0004lJ-Kr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 23:07:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hj5BF-0004fF-CC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 23:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hj5BE-0004cp-1r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 23:07:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hj5BD-0004cL-PS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 23:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hj54q-0000F2-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 23:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-198-33.inter.net.il [83.130.198.33]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id GQN91174 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 2 May 2007 06:00:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4637A396.9000300@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43465 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 22:31:18 +0200 > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > CC: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > >> "C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe" -n --eval > >> "Z:\00_Preferences\Emacs\.emacs" > >> > >> What am I doing wrong? > > > > Why do you make this so complicated? Why not > > > > "C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe" --eval > > "Z:\00_Preferences\Emacs\.emacs" > > > > ? why use emacsclientw? > > > That is good advice for the unpatched version of Emacs, but for the > patched version that comes with Emacs+EmacsW32 it should be handled > differently. > > The reason is that with the patched version you do not have to start > Emacs server in your .emacs, it is started automatically by the first > invocation of emacsclient. So not only is your Emacs patched and behaves differently, it also teaches users habits that will prevent them from using the same .emacs on other systems? I find this disturbing.