Re: windows setup for emacsclient

[B. T. Raven]

rustom wrote:
> What do I have to do to open a file with emacsclient in windows?
>
> Yeah I know one must first start emacs with server-start -- I am
> wondering about the more windows-y part. I am, say, in windows
> explorer and want to right-click file and choose open in emacsclient.
> I can even do it now but I have to literally go hunting after it:
> Shift-rt-click -> Open with ->Browse -> Program Files... -> emacs ->
> bin -> emacsclientw -> Ok ... -> Ok
> ...... every time the same bally-hoo.
>
> Related to this: How to give the -n option? Because otherwise when I
> kill that buffer emacs pops a window at me saying the client is still
> waiting for the server or some such thing.

Go to a msdos prompt and type something like:

ftype emacs=c:\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe -n "%1"

but with your appropriate path (you can call the part before = whatever 
you want)

and then (for example):

assoc .txt=emacs

Then with regedit make a key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\emacsclientw.exe\shell\Open\Command

with value:

c:\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe -n "%1"

with -a switch you can add an alternate editor. I have seen this set to 
/path/runemacs.exe  See:


http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsClient

under emacsclientw for vers. 22



Also under shell (i.e)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\emacsclientw.exe\shell

I have two names:

FriendlyCache
FrienllyCacheCTime

of types REG_SZ  and REG_BINARY respectively and values

GNU Emacs for Windows NT/95/98/2000/ME/XP
and
00 46 bf f2 04 c1 c7 01

I have no idea what they are or where they came from.

You can associate other filetypes with Emacs via assoc in a dos window 
or else use Tools > Folder Options > File Types in Windows Explorer.

Back up the registry before you mess with it. It is intrinsically 
dangerous to edit it manually. It may be possible to accomplish the 
above without regedit but I don't know how to do it.

Ed