Re: [h-e-w] Help: NT Emacs and the SendTo menu behaviour...

[John McCabe]

> OK, let me have one final crack at this.  I assume you have a shortcut
> in your SendTo folder that contains Target: runemacs (maybe with a full
> pathname, maybe with .exe, etc).  On your Win98 machine, try following the
> runemacs by "%1", and if that still doesn't work you might try "%1 %2".

I'm sure I tried this and windows informed me the target was invalid, but 
I'll give it another go this evening at home.

> I would be interested to know whether this makes any difference. On the
> NT box I'm using at present it doesn't, i.e. runemacs alone seems to
> behave exactly the same as runemacs "%1" -- I didn't try anything else.  > In 
> both cases, a single copy of Emacs is started showing the two files
> that I had selected before selecting the SendTo option.

That's exactly how my Win2k and Win95 systems behave.

> But Win98 might handle SendTo arguments
> differently; I vaguely remember some issue like that.

That may be a possibility, although I haven't found anything to say that is 
so, also it seems odd, if that's the case, that MS Word should open a 
single instance with multiple files and not Emacs.

> You could also try experimenting from a command line, e.g. try
> 
> runemacs foo bar
> runemacs "foo bar"
> 
> and see if it makes any difference.

Funnily enough I was thinking of trying this to see whether multiple 
arguments caused multiple instances. It doesn't on the Win2k system I have. 
 
Thanks for those suggestions, I'll give them a go this evening and let you 
know how I get on.

Best Regards
John McCabe