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From: | Jason Rumney |
Subject: | Re: [h-e-w] Multiple versions of Emacs under Windows; How to specify which Emacs should run when file is double-clicked? |
Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:20:35 +0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 |
On 10/01/2011 05:43, Lennart Borgman wrote: > We have discussed this before on the Emacs Devel list. My conclusion > was that the windows version (i.e. emacsclientw.exe) should not wait - > because if it does that gives problems for some programs starting it > since you can not give the switch --no-wait in all such cases. (Not > for cmd.exe though.) > Which programs are these? I am not aware of any programs that have a problem if the external editor which they launch does not terminate until the user is finished editing. I do know that not waiting causes problems for many programs which use termination of the editor they spawned to mean the file they requested to be edited is ready. > Unfortunately I have not time to check such things over and over again > and fix them so I would be glad if this was changed in Emacs sources > instead of my Emacs+EmacsW32 distribution. The patch is needed, at > least in some cases. > It is wrong, at least in some cases.
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