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Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support
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Jason Rumney |
Subject: |
Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support |
Date: |
13 Oct 2001 10:06:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.107 |
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:14:40 -0600 (MDT)
> >
> > If it should only affect running an executable
I disagree that shortcuts should be limited to this. If a user has a
shortcut to a .txt file, the thing they are most likely to want to do
from Emacs is edit that file from Emacs. Being able to automatically
run Notepad or MS Word when a user tries to execute a shortcut to a
text file is a far less important thing for Emacs to do IMHO.
> > then maybe it should be implemented in the parts of Emacs which
> > run subprocesses.
>
> I think this happens automatically on Windows
It doesn't. I get "Bad command or file name" when I try to execute a
.lnk file directly. To do ANYTHING useful with shortcuts in Windows,
you need to explicitly write code to support them.
The only programs I have ever encountered that support shortcuts are
explore.exe, iexplore.exe, outlook.exe and start.exe.
--
Jason Rumney
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, (continued)
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Stefan Monnier, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Stefan Monnier, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support,
Jason Rumney <=
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Raymond Zeitler, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Jason Rumney, 2001/10/13
Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/10