> From: Lennart Borgman [mailto:lennart.borg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday 23 January 2009 4:48 pm > To: Francis Wright > Cc: Stephen Montsaroff; help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > Subject: Re: [h-e-w] gnuclient vs. emacsclient > > 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=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?
It was some time ago now, but I think it was the following. emacsclient always displayed an error or warning message, but I can't remember exactly what it was. Once I acknowledged that it then worked. I think I reported this during pretest but it was not resolved (for me) and I didn't have time to investigate. It may be some peculiarity of my system. But since gnuclient didn't have this problem I just took the easy option. Francis
