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

[Sprenger, Karel]

Hi,

The trick is to use gnuserv/gnuclient.  See 
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq3.html#assoc for further details.  
The link to http://www.wyrdrune.com/index.html?gnuserv.html~main is not very 
useful for Windows users.  So after installing gnuserv.el in your 
emacs/site-lisp directory and the exe's in emacs/bin (assuming that is in your 
path), you add the followinbg to your .emacs file:

;;; start gnuserv
(setenv "GNUSERV_SHOW_EMACS" "1")         ; force gnuserv to show emacs  
window, always
(if (or (eq window-system 'x)
        (eq window-system 'win32)
        (eq window-system 'w32))
    (progn
      (gnuserv-start)
      (message "gnuserv started.")))

Then place a shortcut in your sendto folder with "C:\emacs\bin\gnuclientw.exe 
-q -F" as the target on which to drop the file you want to pass to emacs.  Even 
handier IMHO is to associate .txt files and the like with 
'C:\emacs\bin\gnuclientw.exe -q -F "%1"' (note the double quotes surrounding 
%1: these serve to protect long file names with embedded blanks from being 
passed as multiple arguments).  Under NT and W2K this can be done in a command 
box by (re)defining associations as follows:

   ftype elfile=C:\emacs\bin\gnuclientw.exe -q -F "%1"
   assoc .el=elfile

>From then on, double clicking an .el file in an Explorer window will pass the 
>file into emacs.

Cheers,
Karel

-----Original Message-----
From: John McCabe [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: vrijdag 19 april 2002 15:50
To: address@hidden
Subject: [h-e-w] Help: NT Emacs and the SendTo menu behaviour...


Hi

I run EmacsNT 21.2 on a number of systems e.g:

Windows 95   - At work
Windows 2000 - At work
Windows 98   - At home

On all of these machines I have added a shortcut to runemacs.exe in
the relevant SENDTO directory to get it in to the SendTo menu on right
clicking on a file.

On both work machines, when I select more than one file, right click,
then SendTo emacs, all the files are loaded into a single instance of
the Emacs executable, but on my home machine, each file is loaded into
a separate instance of the Emacs executable.

Does anyone know if there is some customisation in either Emacs (I
have different .emacs files betweem home and work I think!) or in
Windows that would cause the difference in behaviour?

Is is at all relevant that I've had Emacs at home for a number of
years, possibly since version 19.34, but I've only ever installed from
Emacs 20 onwards at work?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Best Regards
John McCabe