Re: Suggest --chdir be mentioned in Windows FAQ

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Aug 2023 08:54:48 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Joel Reicher <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:29:30 +1000
> 
> I recently discovered this startup option and I think it's just as
> useful in the value for ALTERNATE_EDITOR as it is for X (mentioned in
> the manual), since Windows is also a desktop environment.

Please elaborate: I don't understand why you'd need to use --chdir on
MS-Windows, let alone need it badly enough to have that in the FAQ.
And why is ALTERNATE_EDITOR relevant here?