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  • Thanks - great point about the server, I wasn't thinking. Commented Sep 24, 2014 at 19:12
  • Regarding the emacsclient.exe, shouldn't that be emacsclientw.exe? Also, I thought you had to run this with the -a flag to specify an alternative editor if the server wasn't running. Commented Sep 24, 2014 at 19:17
  • In order to get the server to work properly with my configuration, I also had to add an environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE that pointed to my .emacs.d\server directory. Commented Sep 30, 2014 at 0:10
  • @Ryan I was able to get this working without the need for the environment variable - just needed to ensure that the server was running. Commented Dec 30, 2014 at 15:21
  • Hmm, for me evaluating (server-running-p) returns :other on Windows (even after trying setting that EMACS_SERVER_FILE env var. Commented Nov 5, 2015 at 4:06