I use the Emacs distribution available from EmacsW32. I switched from gnuclient to emacsclient whenever this distribution did. From a functionality perspective they are very similar, but since I also use Carbon-emacs on my Mac, and Gnu Emacs on my Linux machines, I prefer it because it is standard across the board. Plus, emacsclient development is still active because it is a part of Emacs. To my knowledge, Gnuclient development is dead, but I could be wrong about that.
Regards, Stewart On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com > wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Francis Wright <f.j.wri...@qmul.ac.uk> > wrote: > >> From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright=qmul.ac...@gnu.org > >> [mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+f.j.wright<help-emacs-windows-bounces%2Bf.j.wright> > =qmul.ac...@gnu.org] On > >> Behalf Of Lennart Borgman > >> Sent: Thursday 22 January 2009 11:08 pm > >> To: Stephen Montsaroff > >> Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > >> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] gnuclient vs. emacsclient > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Stephen Montsaroff <ste...@pobox.com> > >> wrote: > >> > I was wondering what people thought of using the gnuclient vs > >> emacsclient on > >> > Windows. > >> > >> Gnuclient was used for older versions of Emacs. Today you should use > >> emacsclient, see > >> > >> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnuClient > > > > I tried and failed to get emacsclient to work properly some time ago, so > I went back to using gnuclient, which does what I want it to. I'm using a > very old version of gnuclient and I'm surprised that it still works, but it > does. However, I expect other people have had the opposite experience and it > may depend on exactly how you use it. I mainly use it in the Windows > Explorer context menu so that I can open all files in the same instance of > Emacs. > > > > To be precise, I'm using gnuclient 1.7 (27 Feb 1997) on both Windows XP > and Vista with > > > > GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6001) > > of 2008-09-06 on SOFT-MJASON > > > That was it that you could not get to work with emacsclient? > > >
