> Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 14:04:16 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Gary Oberbrunner <ga...@genarts.com>
> Cc: drew adams <drew.ad...@oracle.com>, help-emacs-windows@gnu.org, lennart 
> borgman <lennart.borg...@gmail.com>, matthew fidler 
> <matthew.fid...@gmail.com>, adamdold...@adamgolding.com
> 
> > > So, emacs Windows wizards, is the best Emacs shortcut for Windows
> > > now just "emacsclient -na emacs"?  Or is it "emacsclientw -na
> > > runemacs"?
> > 
> > The latter, of course.  The rule is, when you don't have a program to
> > wait for Emacs to finish editing, use emacsclientw, otherwise use
> > emacsclient.
> 
> Good to know.  So for my $EDITOR env var (git commits and so on), the right 
> thing should be:
>   "emacsclient -na runemacs"
> ? (adjusted for paths and so on)

Yes, I think so.  (I cannot be sure, as I don't use git.)

> As for your "of course", where do I go to be enlightened in that
> way? (i.e. where's that documented?)

In the Emacs manual (the Windows appendix).  It's possible that this
was only added in the recent versions, though.

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