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

[Chris McMahan]

Here's the bottom line John

1. If you want to launch a NEW instance of emacs every time, use
   runemacs.exe. 

2. If you want to use an existing, already running instance of emacs,
   use gnuclientw.exe / gnuserv

That's it. If you don't, for whatever reason, want to load, use, even
look at gnuclientw / gnuserv, then you will have to launch a new
instance of emacs. Period!

It is NOT an association issue. It is an issue of what program you
call to get the file sent to emacs from within the send to folder. If
you insist on calling runemacs, then a new instance (with all of the
associated load times, memory usage, and resource drains) will be
launched.

 - Chris


John McCabe writes:
>> To open files in a running instance of emacs, you definitely need
>> gnuserv/gnuclient as runemacs is intended (or so I believe) to just start
>> emacs.
>
>That's brilliant, but this is *not* what I want!!!!
>
>
>>  If you follow the instructions I mailed earlier you will be one
>> happy user.
>
>I doubt it, because the system will be doing even more things I don't want 
>it ti!
>
>> Under Windows98 and the like, it might be worthwile to have a
>> peek in the registry after setting up the file associations.  I noticed that
>> setting file associations through Explorer's Options will force a %1 without
>> quotes on the command line entered.  With regedit you can change that to the
>> format I mailed, and you should be OK.  As I don't have a Windows98 machine
>> around anymore I can't check this, so comments are appreciated.
>
>I don't think it's a file associations issue because, as far as I know, 
>that's not how the SendTo menu works.
>
>As I said earlier, I don't want to appear unappreciative, but anything 
>connected with Gnuserv/Gnuclient is totally irrelelevant to the issue I'm 
>trying to sort out because:
>
>1) I don't have it installed
>2) I don't want to install it (especially now I've seen messages on the 
>newsgroup from people having problems using Emacs 21.2 *with* it 
>installed)!
>Best Regards
>John McCabe
>
>
>

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