Re: Windows binaries for emacs-28 status and TODOs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>   Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 21:03:10 +0100
> 
> 1. Gnu Nano
> 2. Vim (the ubiquitous text editor) [default]
> 
> it seems the above are included in Git for Windows, for the following
> there are links provided (supposedly when they are not found)
> 
> 3. Notepad++
> 4. Visual Studio Code
> 5. Visual Studio Code Insiders
> 6. Sublime Text
> 7. Atom
> 8. VSCodium
> 
> And the final two programs are provided by the OS
> 
> 9. Notepad (New)
> 10. Wordpad (New)
> 
> 11. Select other editor as Git's editor
> 
> I find this quite astonishing that there is no mention of Emacs, all the
> more because Linus is supposed to use µemacs a variant of it!  It seems
> that the maintainers don't consider Emacs a "text editor"?

They should have emacsclient, not Emacs.  (When I install Git, I
choose 11 and point Git to emacsclient.exe.)