Re: Sick question of the week

[Andrea Crotti]

Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name> writes:

> Does anyone know if it is possible to usefully get the EmacsW32
> emacsclient to work happily with, say, a cygwin emacs-server instance?
>
> Apart from being curious, and just enjoying making things do stuff they
> might never have been intended to do, I would like to avoid running more
> than one emacs instance and sometimes just want to quickly double click
> a file in explorer and have emacs(W32) open it.

Are there reasons to use emacs-server in cygwin and not the
emacs(W32)-server (if there is?)?

Don't know if it works but normally they don't find each other, maybe
setting the protocol to TCP might make it work...