At 02:03 AM 2/12/2004, Peter A. Castro you wrote: >On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Morris Siegel wrote: > >> My PC is running under Windows XP Professional, and until recently with >> Cygwin-1.5.5-1 and zsh-4.1.1-1 . I upgraded to Cygwin-1.5.6-1, installing >> everything available, in particular including zsh-4.1.1-2 . zsh behaved in >> a buggy fashion. I reported it; you kindly replied that similarly problems >> had been reported by others, and that Cygwin-1.5.7-1 should fix matters. I >> upgraded to that, and the behavior is improved, but still buggy: (1) >> sometimes when I start zsh it hangs, sometimes it starts normally; (2) zsh >> command-line editing generally badly messes up the display when long command >> lines are being edited. I seem to recall that problem (2) was a consistent >> nuisance a while back, but then some new Cygwin release (I don't remember >> which) fixed it. (I generally run zsh under screen, by the way.) > >cgf said in earlier email that this has been fixed in CVS and will be >pushed into the next release. For the moment, if you really need zsh >(like me :), downgrade to 1.5.5 and wait for the update to appear. >
As I mentioned before, it's better to verify that the current snapshot does address the problem you're seeing locally. Otherwise, if you're seeing a variant or something different than the rest, your problem won't be known until after 1.5.8 is released. See <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/> for the latest snapshots you can download and try. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
