I've recently noticed that xemacs will crash if one attempts to turn on syntax highlighting via turn-on-font-lock (even started with the -q option), but only if run under X. (If X is not running, there is no problem.) The crash causes the following to print:
Lisp backtrace follows: dispatch-non-command-events() # (condition-case ... . ((nil))) progress-feedback-dispatch-non-command-events() # bind (tmsg top frame value message label) append-progress-feedback(font-lock "Fontifying recdabas.c..." 0 nil) # bind (frame value message label) display-progress-feedback(font-lock "Fontifying recdabas.c..." 0) # bind (str) # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (args value fmt label) progress-feedback-with-label(font-lock "Fontifying %s..." 0 "recdabas.c") # bind (maybe-loudly end beg) font-lock-default-unfontify-region(1 32102 t) # bind (loudly end beg) font-lock-unfontify-region(1 32102 t) # bind (was-on font-lock-verbose font-lock-message-threshold aborted) # (unwind-protect ...) font-lock-default-fontify-buffer() # bind (font-lock-verbose) font-lock-fontify-buffer() # bind (on-p maximum-size arg) font-lock-mode(1) #<compiled-function nil "...(4)" [font-lock-mode 1] 2 ("/usr/share/xemacs-21.4.23/lisp/font-lock.elc" . 36897) nil>() call-interactively(turn-on-font-lock) command-execute(turn-on-font-lock t) # bind (_execute_command_keys_ _execute_command_name_ prefix-arg) execute-extended-command(nil) # bind (command-debug-status) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) Segmentation fault (core dumped) Although I don't use XEmacs a lot, I do have it configured as the editor to use for entering configuration control check-in messages, so I think the problem must be fairly recent or I would have noticed it before. (If this problem is better posted to the Cygwin-xfree list, let me know and I'll post it there.) -- Will -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple