Re: [h-e-w] Multiple versions of Emacs under Windows; How to specify which Emacs should run when file is double-clicked?

[David Vanderschel]

I believe that the difference between emacsclient and 
emacsclientw is that, with the "w", it is equivalent to 
emacsclient with the --no-wait option and not whether or not a 
command window appears.  For a file association they work the 
same as far as I can tell.  I.e., after a double-click to open, 
Windows Explorer was not going to wait anyway - so it does not 
make any difference.  (I certainly do not see any command window 
popping up with emacsclient.  I think there may have been such an 
issue with gnuclient.)  The waiting capability is useful when you 
want to specify a text editor to be invoked by some program that 
will subsequently treat the edited file.  You can observe the 
difference in behaviour by running it from the command line.  In 
Emacs, I get the "When done with a buffer, type C-x #" prompt 
either way; and I ignore it with no apparent harmful effect, 
since I have no programs that invoke emacsclient and do wait for 
it.

Regards,
 David V.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Wright" <address@hidden>
To: "'David Vanderschel'" <address@hidden>; 
<address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 6:48 AM
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Multiple versions of Emacs under Windows;How 
to specify which Emacs should run when file is double-clicked?


You probably want to set the file association to emacsclientw.exe 
(note the w)
to avoid a command window popping up. And if you want 
emacsclient(w).exe to fire
up emacs if it is not already running then you need to specify 
runemacs as the
alternate editor, via either a command option or an environment 
variable. I
don't think it matters much which version of emacsclient(w).exe 
you run, or
where it is. It invokes the version of runemacs as alternate 
editor specified
explicitly (if you give it a full path name) or implicitly (if 
you don't give it
a full path name) as the first version found via your path 
environment variable.

Francis