Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

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