Some help could be found below http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsMsWindowsIntegration
Also if you wish you can use EmacsW32 or EmacsPortable to manage associations. Matt. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Brian Elmegaard <b...@mek.dtu.dk> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to make emacsclientw the default program for opening different > file types, e.g. fortran source with the extension .for, in windows 7. > > In order to do this I rightclick on a file and chosse 'Open with". > I choose browse and select the emacsclientw.exe which I have unzipped in > \Program Files(x86)\emacs\bin. > > I have two problems with this: > > 1: The same as explained here (http://www.sevenforums.com/** > general-discussion/99462-**cannot-add-program-open-menu.**html<http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/99462-cannot-add-program-open-menu.html>) > occurs. Simply, I do not get emacsclientw.exe in the list when I choose it. > > I have tried emacs.exe as well with the same results. And I have tried to > unzip to other locations with no luck. > > I do not understand whether this has to do with emacs, windows 7 or the > unzip utility (7-zip). > > Any suggestions? > > 2: emacsclientw needs to be run as > "C:\Program Files (x86)\emacs\bin\emacsclientw.**exe" -na runemacs.exe -c > "" > if I understand correctly. > > I need to create a shortcut manually to do this. > Would it be useful to distribute this shortcut by default or to make > emacsclientw possible to run without it? > > tia, > Brian > > >
