Re: emacsclient/server on Windows

[Lennart Borgman]

Francis Leboutte wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have tried to use emacsclient/server on Windows. I haven't found any
> emacsclient executable in the Emacs distribution. Looking on the web,
> I found this in an email of the gnu lists archive: "I just want to
> tell that w32 still have no working emacsclient/server.
> Gnuserver/client is a workaround, but as far as I understand this can
> currently not be part of Emacs because of license problems."
>
> Does someone have more info about the possible port of emacsclient?
>
> Is Gnuserver/client a viable alternative? Should I use Xemacs or some
> other variant?
>
> This is very important to me. The availability of emacsclient/server
> on Windows is one of the main raisons for us to switch to emacs.
> Shortly I have to develop an ontology editor for KM (Knowledge
> Machine, from Texas edu), Emacs would be the text editor.
>
>  
Go to http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html to find a temporary 
solution. This solution is working and easy to install.

There is currently some work in progress to get emacsclient/server to 
work in MS Windows.