Re: emacsclient and gnuclient on msw2000

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> I want to associate certain file extensions with Emacs so that a new 
> instance of Emacs is not opened when a file is clicked on. Is it 
> possible to do this in a w32 environment? Recently I saw this in the ng 
> but I don't understand it:
>
> "
> REM $Id: emacsassoc.bat,v 1.1 2003/01/10 08:21:27 reichr Exp $
> REM You should adjust the path to gnuclientw.exe
> REM %%1 is needed for 4nt, %1 can be used for cmd.exe
>
> ftype emacs-file=c:\emacs\bin\gnuclientw.exe -q -F "%%1"
> assoc .vhdl=emacs-file
> assoc .vhd=emacs-file
> assoc .v=emacs-file
> assoc .c=emacs-file
> assoc .txt=emacs-file
> assoc .el=emacs-file
> assoc .tex=emacs-file
> "
>
> I have changed the path to match my local one but I see that in the bin 
> directory I have emacsclientw and not gnuclient.
>
> I have deleted the .txt association (with Notepad) from the w2000 
> extensions and I wanted to do something like in the above example to 
> have any .txt file opened in a buffer in an already open emacs instance.
> Is that possible?
>
> My version is 22.1

Hi Ed,

There are some brief instructions here

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

Notice that with Emacs 22 you can use emacsclientw.exe instead of 
gnuclientw.exe.