Re: [h-e-w] Want a hybrid of traditional Emacs and EmacsW32

[Jason Rumney]

Mark Ludwig wrote:
> I can get emacsclient/emacsserver to work for "Edit with Emacs" once 
> Emacs is running, but can't get it to start the first time.  How do I 
> do this?  Can EmacsW32 be configured to leave the keyboard alone?  I 
> know it's confusing -- and even occasionally find myself scrolling 
> forward when I want to paste -- but I use Emacs on UNIX for work, too, 
> so my fingers mostly know the original key bindings.
>
> (The solution to starting Emacs the first time using 
> emacsclient/emacsserver on UNIX leverages the ALTERNATE_EDITOR 
> environmental variable, a concept that does not exist on Windows, as 
> far as I know.)

ALTERNATE_EDITOR works on Windows. Set it to runemacs.exe to avoid the 
console window popping up when emacs is started.