On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Francis Wright <f.j.wri...@qmul.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> 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.
I am afraid that is a bit too little information, at least for me. If you remember later please tell us.
