From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work? Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:08:20 +0200 Message-ID: <48986CE4.8050008@gmail.com> References: <489869F1.9030103@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217949001 4649 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2008 15:10:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 15:10:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 05 17:10:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KQOBV-0000B0-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:10:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35514 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQOAa-000214-0q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQO9G-0000KA-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQO9F-0000JI-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38146 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQO9F-0000J7-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:41895) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQO9E-0005A9-P5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62683 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KQO9A-0006OB-5p; Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:08:27 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <489869F1.9030103@alice.it> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080805-0, 2008-08-05), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KQO9A-0006OB-5p. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KQO9A-0006OB-5p bd7e138f40a74fb121a6832fc9e2cbbf X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102092 Archived-At: 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 > > >