RE: [h-e-w] gnuclient vs. emacsclient

[Francis Wright]

> From: Lennart Borgman [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday 23 January 2009 4:48 pm
> To: Francis Wright
> Cc: Stephen Montsaroff; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] gnuclient vs. emacsclient
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Francis Wright <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> >> From: address@hidden
> >> [mailto:address@hidden On
> >> Behalf Of Lennart Borgman
> >> Sent: Thursday 22 January 2009 11:08 pm
> >> To: Stephen Montsaroff
> >> Cc: address@hidden
> >> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] gnuclient vs. emacsclient
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Stephen Montsaroff
> <address@hidden>
> >> wrote:
> >> > I was wondering what people thought of using the gnuclient vs
> >> emacsclient on
> >> > Windows.
> >>
> >> Gnuclient was used for older versions of Emacs. Today you should use
> >> emacsclient, see
> >>
> >>  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnuClient
> >
> > I tried and failed to get emacsclient to work properly some time ago,
> so I went back to using gnuclient, which does what I want it to. I'm
> using a very old version of gnuclient and I'm surprised that it still
> works, but it does. However, I expect other people have had the
> opposite experience and it may depend on exactly how you use it. I
> mainly use it in the Windows Explorer context menu so that I can open
> all files in the same instance of Emacs.
> >
> > To be precise, I'm using gnuclient 1.7 (27 Feb 1997) on both Windows
> XP and Vista with
> >
> > GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6001)
> >  of 2008-09-06 on SOFT-MJASON
> 
> 
> That was it that you could not get to work with emacsclient?

It was some time ago now, but I think it was the following. emacsclient always 
displayed an error or warning message, but I can't remember exactly what it 
was. Once I acknowledged that it then worked. I think I reported this during 
pretest but it was not resolved (for me) and I didn't have time to investigate. 
It may be some peculiarity of my system. But since gnuclient didn't have this 
problem I just took the easy option.

Francis