From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: W32 version crashes on C-g Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:44:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142732782 13684 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2006 01:46:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 19 02:46:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKmzq-0001c6-Ty for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:46:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKmzq-0004XW-Cw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKmzb-0004Wo-0J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:46:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKmza-0004Wc-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKmzZ-0004WZ-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FKn4k-00020s-Hq; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:51:22 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (0x503e2644.bynxx3.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.38.68]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D489A50021; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:45:55 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:52:12 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:51840 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) >> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:49:09 +0100 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> So you lost me there... I just installed MSYS and MINGW, and now >> you're telling me to run stuff in COMMAND.COM ? > > You don't need MSYS, just MinGW. I see. > I understand that you were in a hurry and mildly annoyed, and in that > condition too complex installation instructions may cause a lot of > grief. But please look closer at nt/INSTALL: the ``complex mix'' is > described at the beginning, and after that you have sections labeled > "Confoguring", "Building", and "Installing" that describe the way to > build and install Emacs. Yes, I was in a hurry indeed. > nt/INSTALL assumes that you already have a working development > environment, and so it doesn't tell how to set up such an environment. That's my problem, yes. > I don't object to adding such info (probably near the end, so that it > stays out of the way of the impatient ;-), but please understand that > you were trying to climb a very steep learning curve, hoping you will > be able to do that in about 5 seconds. It's just not so easy on > Windows. Well, I wasn't able to do it (*) in 2 hours either... (*) "it" == "setup a working development environment" But them, I hadn't read Lennart's advise (I still haven't read them, as I could use his pre-built Emacs).. Still, I wonder why the version at ntemacs.sourceforge.net crashes on C-g. Probably a build-error, but who knows? [I'm not going to look for the answer :-)] -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk