Re: smart open, open with..

[Kai Großjohann]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, uly@iname.com wrote:

> But some times I don't have the
> emacs window visible and I would like to open a file
> from explorer. I choose "send to/emacs" from the contextual
> menu, but another emacs process is launched. Isn't there
> a way to open the file with the same instance of emacs
> and to get the focus on it like in the first case
> (drag&drop case) ?

I don't know how to configure Windows, but if you can configure the
command that gets executed when you do that, you can just replace
`emacs FILENAME' with `emacsclient FILENAME', and put this line in
~/.emacs:

(server-start)

Does this help?

kai
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