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From: | Jason Rumney |
Subject: | Re: [h-e-w] gnuserv maintenance |
Date: | Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:43:11 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) |
David Vanderschel wrote:
I just tried testing this by creating a Shortcut to "gnuclient.exe" -q. At least on Windows 2000, this works, and I have recollections of doing this on Windows 95 many years ago before gnuclientw was thought up.You explain how arguments don't work in shortcuts, but can you or anyone else explain why -q behaviour is neccesary for shortcuts?
Perhaps, but if that is the only reason not to change things, then I think it is less annoying than the problem of programs that doo need to wait not working with the current implementation unless you use the version of gnuclient that produces an ugly and useless DOS window.Without the -q, emacs produces the message, "When done with a buffer, type C-x #.", which is how you can explicitly release the buffer for gnuclient's sake. It seems to me that the message about the C-x # command would be meaningless and confusing for a drag and drop on an emacs shortcut.
Furthermore, there is no need to have the DOS window for the corresponding instance of gnuclient lying about - possibly indefinitely if the buffer is never released (and there is no a priori reason to expect that it should be released in this case).
There is no DOS window with gnuclientw. This is the reason it exists.
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