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Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] EMACSW32 and Windows 7 Win+Arrow Shortcuts
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 21:58:20 +0300

> Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 14:34:22 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Gary Oberbrunner <address@hidden>
> Cc: drew adams <address@hidden>, address@hidden, lennart borgman 
> <address@hidden>, matthew fidler <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > The latter, of course.  The rule is, when you don't have a program to
> > wait for Emacs to finish editing, use emacsclientw, otherwise use
> > emacsclient.
> 
> You know more than I about these things, I'm sure, but this doesn't seem 
> accurate to me.
> 
> As far as I can tell, emacsclientw is a GUI program and emacsclient is a CLI 
> program.  Both wait for the server to finish before they return, unless you 
> use -n, in which case both of them return right away.
> 
> Perhaps a better rule is, when the invoking program is a GUI program (e.g. 
> you're in a shell within emacs), use emacsclientw (emacsclient pops up an 
> annoying console window in this case); when the invoking program is a CLI 
> program where you want messages to come out on stdout, use emacsclient.
> 
> Does that work?

That's another way of putting the same condition, yes.



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