Re: [h-e-w] sending filenames from command-line

[Lennart Borgman]

David Vanderschel wrote:
> d:\emacs\emacs-20.7\bin\gnuclientw.exe -F "%1 %2 %3 %4"
>
> Backslashes are no problem.  Spaces in the path are a
> little problem - addressed with the multiple %n's for
> the quoted argument to gnuclientw.  Add more if you
> need them.  (I need my full path to emacs's bin
> directory, since it is not actually in my path
> environment variable.)  Things do get fouled up if you
> put quotes around the path on the command line.

In EmacsW32 there is a command file for opening files with gnuclient. 
The command file emacs.cmd looks something like this (depending on where 
you choosed to install EmacsW32):

   @"c:\Program Files\Emacs\EmacsW32\bin\gnuclient.exe" -sqf  %*

If you want to open a file with spaces in do like this:

   emacs.cmd "C:\Program Files"

This open dired for that directory. It is quite convenient to have it 
this way since completion in cmd.exe will add the quotes.