Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>]

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?

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.

Following [1], you can find other useful information.


Cheers,
    Angelo.

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[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00609.html