The taskbar behaviour of Emacs under Windows 7 leaves something to be desired. This may be an insurmountable problem; but I thought I would at least describe it here.
If you minimize Emacs, an icon appears on the taskbar. If you then pin that icon to the taskbar, it will be there even if emacs is not running. The problem is that the icon apparently points to emacs.exe, so, if you click it when emacs is not already running, you wind up with that unnecessary and objectionable cmd window. So I went to bin, found runemacs.exe, and told Windows to pin that to the taskbar, which it did. Now, I can start Emacs without the cmd window, by clicking that taskbar icon. The bad news is that when you minimize emacs, it creates yet another icon on the taskbar separate from the one for runemacs. Clearly the problem is not serious; but the behaviour is IMO non-intuitive and not as clean as one would hope in the Windows 7 environment. Perhaps there may even be a workaround that I could not discover. Anyone know one? Regards, David V.
