Re: latest emacs, cygwin, and constant stackdumps

2011-04-12 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 18:24, Ken Brown wrote: > On 3/29/2011 9:26 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> >> On 3/29/2011 8:48 AM, J. David Boyd wrote: >>> >>> I'm not certain of the exact version of these, but they are the latest, >>> as I upgrade at least once a week. >>> >>> Lately, everytime I do almost any

Re: emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

2010-03-29 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 15:13, Ken Brown wrote: > On 3/29/2010 6:33 AM, Dan Tsafrir wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> After I've upgraded to cygwin-1.7 my emacs takes 30-40 seconds to >> open. Following >> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#poor-p

Re: gv became really slow?

2009-02-05 Thread Dan Tsafrir
> I confirm that gv is practically unusable since I updated to x.org > 7.4. It is very very slow. For the example you give, it takes only 2 > seconds to load (same version 3.6.5, Windows XP, Dual Core2 Duo 2.6 > GHz) but on the large ps files I use it takes ages to show compared to > before I upgra

gv became really slow?

2009-02-04 Thread Dan Tsafrir
Hi, It used to be the case that opening a postscript file with gv on cygwin was more or less immediate. I've recently updated cygwin and now it takes about 2-5 seconds (a clock is displayed while gv is "thinking"). This happens even if the postscript file contains only a few words. For example, if

bug in cygwin's gcc/g++ getopt_long(): erroneous "ambiguous option"

2009-01-12 Thread Dan Tsafrir
Hi, When given certain long options, Cygwin's getopt_long() function erroneously fails on "ambiguous option". The short program below illustrates the problem: getopt_long() wrongfully reports the "--xy" option as ambiguous. Strangely, if flipping the order of the 2nd and 3rd entries in the option

Re: gv-3.6.1 erroneously displays text: doubling its vertical and halving its horizontal dimensions

2007-01-18 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On 1/18/07, Dan Tsafrir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, When I open a postscript document (any document) with 'gv', the text in the document appears doubled in height and halved in width, making the document virtually unreadable. Well apparently there was something messed up i