Oops, accidently replied to sender instead of mailing list. Message is below.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Brandon Olivares [mailto:programmer2...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:53 PM > To: 'Ken Brown' > Subject: RE: emacs hanging on Cygwin > > Hi, > > CYGWIN is already set to tty, among other values. But that report > doesn't accurately describe the problem I'm having. > > The problem is that the emacs window becomes unresponsive seemingly at > random, and I have to either kill the process emacs.exe from Windows > task manager, or open another cygwin terminal and kill the process. > > When it becomes unresponsive, I cannot move the cursor, execute any > commands, nor exit emacs. > > The first time it happened, I was just trying to switch between windows > within emacs with C-x o. The next time, I was trying to open another > file. I can't remember what prompted all of the other times. Also > sometimes it hangs when trying to exit. > > I'm running Windows Vista, by the way. I forgot to mention that in my > original email. > > Thanks, > Brandon > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On > > Behalf Of Ken Brown > > Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:36 PM > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: Re: emacs hanging on Cygwin > > > > On 4/12/2009 6:28 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote: > > > I'm trying to start using emacs, but it keeps hanging, somewhat > > randomly. > > > Usually it is a few minutes after I start it, and I haven't been > able > > to > > > notice a pattern. Other times it hangs when I try to close it. The > > window > > > exits from emacs, but then it just shows the bash shell without the > > prompt > > > redisplaying. > > > > Are you running emacs in the window you get by running cygwin.bat? > If > > so, you might need to set CYGWIN=tty first. Other alternatives are > > mentioned in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00459.html . Yet > > another alternative is to use mintty. > > > > Ken > > > > -- > > 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/ -- 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/
