How to “open with” NTemacs on Windows?

Question

I have just installed ntemacs and I would like to open .txt files with it by default. The only executable that it will open with is emacs.exe, but this open a command line window as well and it would be good if I can just get it to open without the command line window.

Answer 1

You want runemacs.exe rather than emacs.exe.

Answer 2

I create the following bat script (usually called emacsc) and associate it with text files and the like

@echo off
if "%~1"=="" goto noargs
"%~dp0\emacs-24.0.50\bin\emacsclientw.exe" -na "%~dp0\emacs-24.0.50\bin\runemacs.exe" %*
goto exit
:noargs
"%~dp0\emacs-24.0.50\bin\emacsclientw.exe" -na "%~dp0\emacs-24.0.50\bin\runemacs.exe" -e *scratch*

:exit

I also add it to the path so that if I run emacsc from the command line.