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

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:39:44 +0200
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Emacs Devel <address@hidden>
> >
> > Paper size is one I remember right now. Another is the location of 
> > Ghostscript.
> >    
>
> How about adding some code to `openp' so that, on w32 platforms, it
> would look for the program/file in the Registry, in addition to the
> list of directories it gets as its argument?
>
> In other words, searching for a file or a program is already a
> functionality for which we have an established API in Emacs.
> Extending that API to handle Ghostscript and similar cases is
> something that IMHO will be met with less resistance than inventing a
> Windows-only API.
>  
A note for non w32 users: On w32 application paths are (if the 
installation process is welbehaved) stored in a Registry key under "App 
Paths" (with a path prepended, the registry has an hierarchical view 
looking like a tree structured file system).

For those applications that uses this possibility I think this could be 
used. I found it however a bit hard to think of a seamless way to 
integrate this in openp. Could you elaborate a little bit more?

My primary thoughts are that this could be restricted to the case when 
you search for an .exe file on w32 and this is not found in the path. In 
openp there is needed a piece of w32 specific code at the end that calls 
the w32 procedure. Not too disturbing perhaps. And it should work "out 
of the box" in most places in Emacs. Quite nice.