Re: w32 does not have emacsclient/server - getting paper size

[Lennart Borgman]

David Kastrup wrote:

> I don't see that Emacs has an interface into the locale in general
> which would be required for reading the papersize setting.  And the
> usual way for GhostScript is just to look for "gs" in the exec path.
> Since the process shell does that already, "gs" is usually used as the
> default command.  There is no separate database to search for such
> information.  That's what PATH is for.
>  
Ghostscript is not installed that way on w32. It is not supposed to be 
find in the PATH. That is because the w32 "architecture" is different. 
You can only find Ghostscript through the registry (or searching the 
whole disk ;-)

> So if one built a general interface into stuff like the paper size,
> and then filled it with life also on the free systems, doing the same
> on w32 would not violate any policies.
That would be very nice. The problem is however that until this is done 
Emacs is kind of a second class citizen that do not have access to 
things all other w32 programs has. And that makes for a bad impression. 
Am I right in assuming that the lack of this capability on for example 
GNU/Linux does not give such an impression?