[h-e-w] How to direct runemacs.exe to use an existing instance of emacs

[Bacchu, Anjan]

Hi All,

 

    First of all, thanks to all that have made ntemacs successfull.

 

    I am running 21.3 of ntemacs on windows XP and went through the NTEMACS faq but could

not find the solution to the issue. I have run addpm.exe (and hence registered emacs in the registry).

 

    How do I direct runemacs.exe to use(re-use) a running instance of emacs instead of

creating a new process and frame to display a file.

For eg, when I type

"runemacs.exe readme.txt"

from the command line, I expect that the file opens up within

an existing instance of emacs. But I find that runemacs.exe opens another instances of emacs.exe

in another window.

 

    I found that there is a module called gnuserv(mentioned in the FAQ)  which lets me do something

similar but why doesn't runemacs.exe support an option ? Most applications integrate pretty nicely

with Windows using the registry

 

(    I am running ORACLE sqlplus within emacs successfully.  But, I have a small issue -- when I run

ed from sqlplus, it launches another instance of emacs (not another frame).)

 

Also, how do I find the command line options for the emacs program ? usually a " --help" appended

to the .exe gets me the help in most cygwin/unix program.(eg "find --help")

 

Any hints and pointers would be appreciated.

 

Thank you for your time,

 

Best Regards,

ANJAN. B