I was annoyed by some shortcomings of my cygwin emacs (21.1? whatever version was included around the time of cygwin-1.5.5-1), such as lack of electricity with kill-ring-save and oddity with multiline kill'ing, so ~29 Jan I upgraded to cygwin-1.5.6-1, emacs-21.2.1, and whatever the latest XFree86 was then, along with the other goodness cygwin's setup advised me to get. Since then emacs life has been bad, but I'm not sure why, since available evidence seems to point in several directions.
Note that I run emacs via
emacs --debug-init &
from bash in an xterm which I launch with
start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons
I typically run 2 emacs windows (second created with C-x 5 b) and 1 xterm, all of which usually overlap ... until the emacs windows
disappear, apparently randomly, although lately I'm convinced that emacs crashes are more likely when I'm either resizing or minimizing its windows. I've so far run 2 cygwin sessions today,
once at home (with access to shared drives via a VPN) and once at
work (directly on ethernet), and the xterm traces have been:
These problems seem very similar to what I see when using Emacs, except that I use Exceed as my X windows server. I see similar (but not quite identical in frequency) problems with both emacs 21.2-12 and 21.2-11.
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