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

[Stewart Bryson]

I use the Emacs distribution available from EmacsW32. I switched from gnuclient to emacsclient whenever this distribution did. From a functionality perspective they are very similar, but since I also use Carbon-emacs on my Mac, and Gnu Emacs on my Linux machines, I prefer it because it is standard across the board. Plus, emacsclient development is still active because it is a part of Emacs. To my knowledge, Gnuclient development is dead, but I could be wrong about that.

Regards,

Stewart

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Francis Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac.uk@gnu.org
>> [mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac.uk@gnu.org] 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?