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Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support
From: |
David Masterson |
Subject: |
Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support |
Date: |
15 Oct 2001 08:39:03 -0700 |
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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> From: David Masterson <dmaster@synopsys.com>
>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
>> Date: 12 Oct 2001 15:40:01 -0700
>> > I am not sure that is correct. It may be Microsoft's design that
>> > they are only intended to be double-clicked with a mouse in order to
>> > execute the default application for a shortcut's target, but I see
>> > no reason why we should restrict Emacs to such a narrow use.
>> That doesn't appear to be the only use on Windows. You can have a
>> shortcut to a text file (for instance). When clicked on, it will
>> "Open" the text file (ie. invoke the editor [Notepad] on it).
> I think this is because Notepad has specific application-level
> support for shortcuts.
I don't think so (but I'm no expert). I think Notepad is invoked
because Windows has it attached to its list of File Types as the means
to open files of that type.
>> Since a shortcut is more than just a soft link, I don't think
>> implementing shortcut support as an Emacs primitive will work
>> (something needs to interpret the "Target type").
> We probably need both; it's a mess.
Is the problem here that we don't want to incorporate MS-Windows code
into Emacs? If you resolved the shortcut the "Windows" way, by
definition, the right thing should happen. In the case of opening a
shortcut to text file, Windows would normally use Notepad, but that
can easily be altered to invoke Emacs (or, better yet, gnuclient).
--
David Masterson dmaster AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, (continued)
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Jason Rumney, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Jason Rumney, 2001/10/13
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Stefan Monnier, 2001/10/13
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/14
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Stefan Monnier, 2001/10/14
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/13
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Jason Rumney, 2001/10/13
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support,
David Masterson <=
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/15
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/14
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/14
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/15
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/15
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/15
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/16
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/16
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Raymond Zeitler, 2001/10/17
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/17