[BeetleB]

> In other words, I spent a ton of time to set up emacs so that when it's already open new files will be opened in that already running instance.

Isn't this just a matter of associating files to the right Emacs executable (emacsclient)?

[MikeTheGreat]

It's been a while and I've forgotten a bunch, but I think I tried that and it didn't work. Maybe there were some command line parameters, so I needed to associate it with a batch file.

Plus, I wanted to press the Windows key, then type "emacs" and have that work.

I'm probably doing it wrong, but i couldn't find clear, easy, step-by-step instructions for doing this otherwise.