Re: [h-e-w] Windows 10 Taskbar Behavior

[David Vanderschel]

On 9/25/2015 1:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: David Vanderschel <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:46:10 -0500
> >
> > ...
> > Could someone please point me to a solution for Windows 10? (If there is not
> > one, I guess I will resort to AHC.)
> Did you try making a taskbar icon that invokes emacsclient instead?
I had not thought about that, but I gave it a try.  I created an 
ALTERNATE_EDITOR environment variable pointing to runemacs.exe, and I 
made the target for the taskbar icon be ...\emacsclientw.exe -n. That 
fails because emacsclient is not getting a file argument.  So I added 
--eval (maximize-frame).  With that, runemacs does get called and emacs 
starts; but, unfortunately, runemacs eats the "(maximize-frame)" string 
and creates a file by that name.  Not sure why the --eval does not 
prevail.  Ignoring the unfortunate file creation, this still creates a 
separate taskbar icon for the running instance of emacs.  The only good 
news is that the pinned icon does activate the running instance, 
evaluating (maximize-frame).

Obviously much improvement is needed.  Does anyone have any specific 
ideas to achieve the much more desirable behavior we were getting with 
Windows 7 and 8.1?