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

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

John McCabe wrote:
> 
> I know - I know - I know! I am aware of all of this, but that's not the
> issue - the issue was that on 2 machines (one Win2k, one Win95), when I
> "sendto" runemacs with multiple files selected, *one* instance of Emacs is
> created with all the files loaded, whereas on another machine (Win98), each
> file is loaded into a separate instance!
> 
> So it's not a file associations issue, it probably isn't even an Emacs
> issue (per se, although when I sendto Microsoft Word only 1 instance is
> created), but you seem to have joined the discussion as it has veered off
> on becoming gnuclient/gnuserv discussion!

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

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.

Francis