Hi, there!

I'd like to use a shortcut on my desktop to start GNU Emacs with W32
bundle (patched, V1.46 - V1.50) so that my personal init-file is
evaluated at start-up, which is _not_ in my home directory. The
following commands however do not work (cf. Shortcut > Target):

"C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe" -n -e
"Z:\00_Preferences\Emacs\.emacs"

"C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe" -n --eval
"Z:\00_Preferences\Emacs\.emacs"

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for help in advance,

Will

Why do you make this so complicated? Why not

"C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs\bin\runemacs.exe" --eval
"Z:\00_Preferences\Emacs\.emacs"

? why use emacsclientw?

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:

Eh, and that should be

emacsclientw.exe -n -e "(load-file \"c:/path/to/your/file\")"

and you should use FORWARD slashes in the file names.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

You know very well, Eli, that we have discussed if Emacs server should
be started automatically when Emacs client is invoked. I have offered
the code that does so, but you are one of those that did not want that
code to be in Emacs at the moment.

I think it is one of the important features in the patched version that
makes it quite a bit easier to get started using Emacs for new users.
Not one single of the new users have complained about this.

On 5/2/07, Lennart Borgman (gmail) gmail.com> wrote:

I'm obviously not Eli, but I think there were good reasons for not
wanting the code in Emacs at the present. For one, althought I like
the functionality, I think it could benefit from some more discussion;
also, I don't like the implementation.

I don't think "quite a bit easier" is a fair description. We're
talking of the difficulty of starting Emacs as a server before using
emacsclient. Hardly rocket science.

Users who enter Emacs through your distribution don't know it is
currently supposed to be different. Why should they complain, unless
it causes problems (which is not the same that being better, of
course)? And I seem to remember at least a few bug reports...

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

Yes, more discussion would be good. I really tried to open a discussion
about it, but I did not get much company.

Did you read the download page for Emacs+EmacsW32? Did you read the
documentation on the web pages about the patches?

I am not aware of any bugs that have not been fixed. None of the
problems where related to the changes to Emacs client.

On 5/2/07, Lennart Borgman (gmail) gmail.com> wrote:

I'd say you're being unfair, but that would be far too nice. You seem
to have suddenly forgotten tens of messages (public and private) and
quite a few hours devoted to this and related issues. Once again I get
the feeling that you're very conservative with your time, and quite
liberal with other people's.

Also, the fact that your patches (for this issue) where not included
is not because "you did not get much company"; it is because they were
late, not convincing to some people (me included), and not deemed
urgent enough; and, to my knowledge, not agreeing with your assessment
of a problem's gravity/urgency is not a failure in the Emacs
development process. I'm sure you'll disagree.

Yes, Lennart, I did. Once. Fortunately, I'm not morally or
contractually obliged to memorize every single word you write.

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

I am sure you know these things much better than me, I just wanted
something that worked now. You did the heroes work when you got Emacs
client to run on MS Windows. I only reorganized what you wrote and added
simple functions for user feedback.

I also added a switch

--server-file FILENAME