Subject: Re: bug#8268: Windows Emacs Console persists while running running emacs.exe.

From: "Nicholas \"Indy\" Ray" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:42:42 -0700

Again, runemacs.exe doesn't interact properly with the task bar.
runemacs.exe and emacs.exe act as separate icons on the task bar. If
runemacs.exe is pinned, then while emacs.exe is running it's you get
two taskbar icons dedicated to emacs.

Thanks,
Indy

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:42:56 -0700
>> From: "Nicholas \"Indy\" Ray" <[email-masked]>
>> Cc:
>>
>> This seems to be related to bug #1849, but perhaps never properly fixed.
>>
>> Anyways, when opening emacs from Emacs.exe, which is difficult to not do in
>> Windows 7 with pinning to the task bar, Emacs will open with an unneeded
>> console window that cannot be destroyed.
>
> We have runemacs.exe for this very purpose.  Why don't you use it?
> Doesn't it work on Windows 7?
>