On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:03:11PM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote: >After a long hiatus from the Cygwin mailing list, here I am, back again. >I'm sure I'll regret it soon enough. :-) > >I installed the Cygwin emacs 22.1-3 package, along with emacs-el and >emacs-X11, because I wanted to use some elisp files that were >incompatible with emacs 21, and I didn't feel like going through them >and changing all the incompatibilities back to emacs 21 syntax. All my >other packages are current. > >I found that 22.1-3 crashed frequently (like, every few minutes during >active use). > >I downloaded the source for emacs 22.1.92, the current pretest version, >from the FSF server and compiled and installed it myself, and it's >running quite solidly and hasn't crashed on me once. > >So, two questions: > >1. Has anyone else experienced frequent crashes with 22.1-3? >2. Would the maintainer of the emacs package be willing to switch the >experimental package from 22.1 to 22.1.92, or to provide 22.1.92 in >addition to 22.1?
This came up recently in the cygwin-apps mailing list: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-03/threads.html#00221 If you can offer insight into the problems mentioned in that thread, I'm sure it would be appreciated. cgf -- 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/
