Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character

2018-10-03 Thread Steven Penny
On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 15:15:26, Steven Penny wrote: Expanding on the "Notepad" example, "Notepad" default font is "Lucida Console", which doesnt have U+FFFD either. However pasting into "Notepad" will still show U+FFFD properly because "Tahoma" has U+FFFD and "Notepad" can utilize composite font, w

Emacs slow startup

2018-10-03 Thread Katsumi Yamaoka
Hi, Since a couple of months ago, Emacs takes about a minute to start. This happens with both emacs-X11 (the one Cygwin distributes) and the one I built, and everytime I get the following error: ** (emacs:10672): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.2

2018-10-03 Thread David Rothenberger
On 10/3/2018 10:26 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > I have uploaded mintty 2.9.2 with the following changes: This change has broken scrolling backwards using less for me. 2.9.1 is fine. If I run seq 1 100 | less in a mintty window and then scroll down and up, only the top line is updated and even

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

2018-10-03 Thread Keith Christian
I ran the instructions in the previous post. Captured 15k "setup_debugging_session_kchristian.txt" file in the debugging session, hope it sheds some light on it. Thanks for the help and info, Jon. Wed Oct 03 16:26:48 pty0 (keith@someserver) /cygdrive/c/Users/keith/Downloads>gdb ./setup.exe GNU g

Re: gnome applications not working well

2018-10-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/3/2018 4:13 PM, Peng Yisu wrote: > Most gnome apps report this error, > "Error retrieving accessibility bus address: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible > causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message > bus security policy blocked

gnome applications not working well

2018-10-03 Thread Peng Yisu
Most gnome apps report this error, "Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the net

Re: grep < fifo fails

2018-10-03 Thread Houder
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 15:37:14, Ole Tange wrote: > This works: > > $ mkfifo fifo > $ echo > fifo & grep . fifo > [1] 10232 > [1]+ Doneecho > fifo > > But this fails: > > $ echo > fifo & grep . < fifo > [1] 11756 > grep: (standard input): Invalid argument > [1]+ Done

Re: Support for ConPTY?

2018-10-03 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-10-03 10:49, Nicolás Ojeda Bär wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 6:35 PM Andrey Repin wrote: >>> I was wondering if it would be possible to use the recent ConPTY API >>> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.2

2018-10-03 Thread Thomas Wolff
I have uploaded mintty 2.9.2 with the following changes: Terminal interaction   * Fixed space consideration for wrap/resize/copy handling (#800, ~#82).   * Optionally include trailing space in selection (~#768, ~#800).   * Reduced occasional flickering by buffering terminal input (#799).   * Sani

Re: An increment to Jon Turney's stackdump2backtrace script

2018-10-03 Thread Jon Turney
On 01/10/2018 10:20, Mark Geisert wrote: For those Cygwin developers who tend to attract stackdump files... ..mark (who defines an alias 'bt' to launch the script because he can't get gdb out of his head) Nice. Thanks. OTHERS=`ldd $IMG1 | awk '{print $3}' | sort -r | tr '\\n' ' '` One thi

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

2018-10-03 Thread Jon Turney
On 03/10/2018 14:55, Keith Christian wrote: Ken and Jon, I've downloaded setup-2.893.x86.dbg referenced above. I haven't used gdb in a while but I am confident I can use it. I''ve read the page referenced at sourceware.org/git. I'm willing to build a setup-x86.exe to work with setup-2.893.x86

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

2018-10-03 Thread Jon Turney
On 03/10/2018 16:40, Keith Christian wrote: Finished building setup.exe using the http://sourceware.org/git/cygwin-apps/setup.git source. 10/03/2018 07:45 AM23,423,478 setup-2.893.x86.dbg 10/03/2018 08:57 AM29,231,233 setup.exe (version 2.893-3-ge084ed (32 bit)) in the splash

Re: grep < fifo fails

2018-10-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 03.10.2018 um 17:37 schrieb Ole Tange: This works: $ mkfifo fifo $ echo > fifo & grep . fifo [1] 10232 [1]+ Doneecho > fifo But this fails: $ echo > fifo & grep . < fifo [1] 11756 grep: (standard input): Invalid argument [1]+ Doneecho > fifo I see

Re: Support for ConPTY?

2018-10-03 Thread Nicolás Ojeda Bär
Hi Andrey, Thanks for your email. I am rather ignorant about the technical issues, but if you take a look at the section titled ConHost - Investing in yesterday for tomorrow in the referenced blog post it seems to indicate quite clearly that the new API can be used to run *existing* Console ap

Re: Support for ConPTY?

2018-10-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Nicolás Ojeda Bär! > I was wondering if it would be possible to use the recent ConPTY API > > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/ > to improve the compatibility of Cygwin with native Windows cons

Support for ConPTY?

2018-10-03 Thread Nicolás Ojeda Bär
Hello list, I was wondering if it would be possible to use the recent ConPTY API https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/08/02/windows-command-line-introducing-the-windows-pseudo-console-conpty/ to improve the compatibility of Cygwin with native Windows console applications (especia

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

2018-10-03 Thread Keith Christian
Finished building setup.exe using the http://sourceware.org/git/cygwin-apps/setup.git source. 10/03/2018 07:45 AM23,423,478 setup-2.893.x86.dbg 10/03/2018 08:57 AM29,231,233 setup.exe (version 2.893-3-ge084ed (32 bit)) in the splash screen. setup.exe aborts at approximately the

grep < fifo fails

2018-10-03 Thread Ole Tange
This works: $ mkfifo fifo $ echo > fifo & grep . fifo [1] 10232 [1]+ Doneecho > fifo But this fails: $ echo > fifo & grep . < fifo [1] 11756 grep: (standard input): Invalid argument [1]+ Doneecho > fifo I see the same behavior on MINGW, but I do not se

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

2018-10-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 03.10.2018 um 15:55 schrieb Keith Christian: Ken and Jon, I've downloaded setup-2.893.x86.dbg referenced above. I haven't used gdb in a while but I am confident I can use it. I''ve read the page referenced at sourceware.org/git. I'm willing to build a setup-x86.exe to work with setup-2.893

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

2018-10-03 Thread Keith Christian
Ken and Jon, I've downloaded setup-2.893.x86.dbg referenced above. I haven't used gdb in a while but I am confident I can use it. I''ve read the page referenced at sourceware.org/git. I'm willing to build a setup-x86.exe to work with setup-2.893.x86.dbg if you can point me to the instructions f

Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working

2018-10-03 Thread Keith Christian
cyg Simple, Sorry about the top posting, I need to remember I'm in Gmail and act accordingly. There were a few Windows 7 updates recently, Ken Brown has posted debugging symbols and instructions, I'll pursue that. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: h