Attempting "Emacs this file"

[Joe Buehler]

Just Hangin wrote:

> I'm trying to get this little Windows Explorer
> right-click menu add-on to work and having problems. 
> I want to be able to right click on a file and have
> emacs open it in an rxvt.  It almost works...the menu
> item appears, the rxvt opens, emacs runs...but the
> object file %1 doesn't get sucked in.

I just tried this, and the problem I ran into is with the path
passed to emacs.  Try using a batch file to log the arguments
being passed to emacs.

> Im confused.  I see lots of posts about NTEmacs,
> NTEmacs = Gnuemacs, Xemacs...  but, what is the actual
> Emacs in the Cygwin distribution?  Just Gnuemacs,
> right?

The "emacs" package is just a port of GNU emacs.

Joe Buehler




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