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Re: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: Best practices for launching Emacs on Windows 7/8 |
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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:36:43 -0800 (PST) |
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On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 03:59:43 UTC+8, Ludwig, Mark wrote:
> For example, on Windows Vista, I used to be able to make a file
> association with .TXT files that invoked emacsclient with the
> --alternate-editor=runemacs option so that if Emacs wasn't
> running, it would be launched.
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> In Windows 7 and 8, the GUI simply does not allow any options.
Setting ALTERNATE_EDITOR as an environment variable is an alternative to using
the command line option. At least in Windows 7 environment variables are still
accessible from the Advanced properties of "My Computer".