Re: [h-e-w] emacsclient gets error with ALTERNATE_EDITOR on Windows 8.1

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 23:22:44 +0000
> From: <address@hidden>
> 
> If Emacs is already running, emacsclientw.exe works fine.  (I have .txt files 
> (for example) associated with it with the -n flag.)  However, if Emacs is not 
> already running, emacsclient reports an error executing alternate editor 
> ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Emacs\bin\runemacs.exe""  (The redundant quotes are 
> in the error message from emacsclient.)
> 
> I believe that I have set ALTERNATE_EDITOR correctly in the environment 
> variables.  Indeed, I have the following line in the output of a SET command:
> 
> ALTERNATE_EDITOR="C:\Program Files (x86)\Emacs\bin\runemacs.exe"

What happens if you don't quote the string?

What happens if you use a short 8+3 alias of that long name, so that
the name does not include spaces?  (You can find out the short alias
by using "dir /x" at cmd prompt.)