Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server - getting paper size

[Lennart Borgman]

Jason Rumney wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
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> > > Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:39:44 +0200
> > > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: Emacs Devel <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > Paper size is one I remember right now. Another is the location of 
> > > Ghostscript.
> > >      
> > How about adding some code to `openp' so that, on w32 platforms, it
> > would look for the program/file in the Registry, in addition to the
> > list of directories it gets as its argument?
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> Where do you look? This is the first time I have ever heard of looking
> for a path in the registry. You'd need to have a mapping of known
> programs to where they store their registry key telling you where their
> path is. There is no standard for doing this!
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HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\.

There you will find for example a key named firefox.exe under which you 
find the actual path to firefox.exe. But you are right, not all programs 
use this, unfortunately. So in many cases you need a more specific mean 
to get the path, but it is still often in the Registry.