From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:08:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48986CE4.8050008@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489869F1.9030103@alice.it>
Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>> I just out of curiosity installed Cygwin Emacs. Now I am more curious
>> about why this version of Emacs is there.
>>
>> For me nearly nothing works in this Emacs. For example typing C-c
>> results in C-g. Trying to examine a variable results in the error
>> message "Cannot open load file: pp". Trying to send a bug report I am
>> told that Emacs can not load emacsbug. Etc.
>>
>> The about page says
>>
>>
>> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-cygwin)
>> of 2007-07-19 on HERRING
>>
>>
>> Is there anyone to contact about this?
>
> Which package have you installed?
The first I installed was
Editors
emacs: The extensible, customizable ...
That is the one which has the problems I reported above.
Then later I installed the X version
Editors:
emacs-X11: ...
This works (as far as I tested, I do not know Emacs 21 very well).
> In Cygwin the current version of Emacs is 21.2-13, instead 22.1 is in
> the test section, i.e. it is an experimental package.
>
> It is more than an year that it is there without being promoted to
> current because people reported it crashes (see [1] and its replays).
>
> The fact is that since version 22 Emacs is unstable when built with
> gcc-3.4.4 (the current version on Cygwin) and its maintainer on Cygwin
> is waiting for 4... series, with which it is enough stable. Perhaps this
> explain why 22.2 isn't neither in test version.
Thanks, I see, but then perhaps the package I installed should be
removed, because it does not work either (at least not for me).
> Following [1], you can find other useful information.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Angelo.
>
> ---
> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00609.html
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 14:55 Cygwin emacs - does it work? Angelo Graziosi
2008-08-05 15:08 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-08-05 21:26 ` Angelo Graziosi
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2008-08-05 13:53 Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-05 14:05 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-05 14:09 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-05 14:35 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <48986930.2040107@harpegolden.net>
2008-08-05 15:04 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-07 11:24 ` Stephen Leake
2008-08-07 11:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-05 15:19 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-08-05 15:25 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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