Gary Oberbrunner <garyo <at> genarts.com> writes: > For #3, I don't have a good answer yet. I know you start at Control Panel, Default Programs, Set Association, > then find .txt, .el, whatever you like. But how can you specify options to the program here? I don't know > how, without hand-editing the registry. > If you can figure it out though, you want to set those file types to open with: > emacsclientw.exe -na runemacs.exe "%1"
On Windows I use the ASSOC and FTYPE commands to manage file associations from the command line. For example, this should work for elisp files: C:\> assoc .el=EmacsLisp C:\> ftype EmacsLisp=emacsclientw.exe -na emacsclientw.exe "%1" For file associations like this I usually use the full path to the executable (s), but of course if your path is set up then this should be fine. Two other things to consider: 1. Add Emacs to the 'Send To...' context menu. You can do this (on WinXP, paths slightly different on Win7) by creating a shortcut in C:\Documents and Settings \<user>\SendTo. Just create a new shortcut named Emacs and set the target to eg.: "C:\Program Files\Emacs\bin\emacsclientw.exe" -na "C:\Program Files\Emacs\bin \runemacs.exe" 2. Add an 'Open With' context menu item. This /does/ require editing the registry as far as I know. This is described in various places, here's one link: http://www.johndcook.com/emacs_windows.html#explorer -- Greg
