why emacs 21.3 windows version can't work well?

why emacs 21.3 windows version can't work well?

[niDapeng]

I download emacs 21.3.1 Windows version( release date: 26-Jan-2004). I meet so many problems. First, it can run up calendar, mail, etc. Others, Many lisp programs can't work well too, such as screen-lines.el, XAE(for docbook, emacs even can't startup if installed XAE)!

I really don't know if anybody meet same problem like me? This Windows version almost can't work!

My OS is window2000, I tried emacs in 3 computers, all problems are same!

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Re: why emacs 21.3 windows version can't work well?

[Kai Grossjohann]

"niDapeng"<steveneo@21cn.com> writes:

> I download emacs 21.3.1 Windows version( release date:
> 26-Jan-2004). I meet so many problems. First, it can run up
> calendar, mail, etc. Others, Many lisp programs can't work well too,
> such as screen-lines.el, XAE(for docbook, emacs even can't startup
> if installed XAE)!

What happens if you start Emacs as follows:

        emacs -q -no-site-file

And then type M-x calendar RET?

Does Emacs crash?  Does it print an error message?  What error
message?

Kai

Re: why emacs 21.3 windows version can't work well?

[Steve]

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Same problems, in fact, when I extract this version emacs, and startup without any other installation, its calendar won't work either. I also run addpm.exe to install emacs.

Error message:
Loading calendar...done
update-calendar-mode-line: Invalid read syntax: "#"

When I input "M-x calendar" again, error message turn into:
update-calendar-mode-line: Invalid read syntax: "] in a list"




"niDapeng"<steveneo@bogus.example.com> writes:

> I download emacs 21.3.1 Windows version( release date:
> 26-Jan-2004). I meet so many problems. First, it can run up
> calendar, mail, etc. Others, Many lisp programs can't work well too,
> such as screen-lines.el, XAE(for docbook, emacs even can't startup
> if installed XAE)!

What happens if you start Emacs as follows:

        emacs -q -no-site-file

And then type M-x calendar RET?

Does Emacs crash?  Does it print an error message?  What error
message?

Kai

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Re: why emacs 21.3 windows version can't work well?

[Cheng Gao]

Go to http://www.crasseux.com/emacs/ to download CVS Emacs for Windows
build. It worls very well.

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Re: why emacs 21.3 windows version can't work well?

[Jason Rumney]

"Steve" <steveneo@21cn.com> writes:

> Same problems, in fact, when I extract this version emacs, and
> startup without any other installation, its calendar won't work
> either. I also run addpm.exe to install emacs.

The cause is an incompatible change in the mingw-runtime between 2.2
and 2.3, which causes .elc files to load in text mode. Hopefully
there will soon be a new release of Emacs that fixes this problem. In
the meantime I am working on locating an old copy of
mingw-runtime-2.2 so the binaries can be rebuilt.