2011/1/10 Jason Rumney <jas...@gnu.org>: > On 10/01/2011 05:43, Lennart Borgman wrote: > >> We have discussed this before on the Emacs Devel list. My conclusion >> was that the windows version (i.e. emacsclientw.exe) should not wait - >> because if it does that gives problems for some programs starting it >> since you can not give the switch --no-wait in all such cases. (Not >> for cmd.exe though.) >> > > Which programs are these? I am not aware of any programs that have a > problem if the external editor which they launch does not terminate > until the user is finished editing. I do know that not waiting causes > problems for many programs which use termination of the editor they > spawned to mean the file they requested to be edited is ready.
Hm, forgotten at the moment. I think I have seen this in either "it's all text" for firefox or the corresponding support for google chrome. Or was it the downloaded page (C-j) in google chrome that did not permit adding a parameter. I think at leas the last one. >> Unfortunately I have not time to check such things over and over again >> and fix them so I would be glad if this was changed in Emacs sources >> instead of my Emacs+EmacsW32 distribution. The patch is needed, at >> least in some cases. >> > > It is wrong, at least in some cases. I think we agree on this, or? ;-)
