Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/22/2013 10:52 PM, Filipp Gunbin wrote: BTW, if someone knows how to get under X the quality of rendering comparable to mintty, please respond. You're more likely to get help on this question if you ask it on the cygwin-xfree list. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-22 Thread Filipp Gunbin
On 22/02/2013 17:37 +0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/22/2013 3:47 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> At the moment emacs-X11 has a higher priority than emacs-w32. All things >> considered, giving emacs-w32 priority over emacs-X11 seems to be more >> generally >> useful on Cygwin than the other way around.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-22 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 22/02/2013 2:22 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: It's hard to know what people's preferences will be. I gave emacs-X11 the highest priority for two reasons: * It's been the only GUI version of emacs on Cygwin for many years, so making it the default doesn't change what people are us

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > It's hard to know what people's preferences will be. I gave emacs-X11 > the highest priority for two reasons: > > * It's been the only GUI version of emacs on Cygwin for many years, so > making it the default doesn't change what people are used to. > > * It's the build you get

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-22 Thread Arthur Tu
On 2/22/2013 9:37 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 2/22/2013 3:47 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: I think the alternatives system should work fine for most users. The problem you've described occurs only in the following situation: 1. You install both emacs-X11 and emacs-w32.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/22/2013 3:47 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: I think the alternatives system should work fine for most users. The problem you've described occurs only in the following situation: 1. You install both emacs-X11 and emacs-w32. At the moment emacs-X11 has a higher pri

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > I think the alternatives system should work fine for most users. > > The problem you've described occurs only in the following situation: > > 1. You install both emacs-X11 and emacs-w32. At the moment emacs-X11 has a higher priority than emacs-w32. All things c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: >> Doh... well, "-a ''" was what I had wanted to put there, really. Done, and >> switched over to emacsclient-w32. However, emacsclient-w32 then starts an >> emacs-X11 in daemon mode, shouldn't it be starting an emacs-w32? > > Try `emacsclient-w32 -a emacs-w32'. Thanks, that wo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/21/2013 4:42 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Arthur Tu gmail.com> writes: I use only the w32 interface for frame display and I haven't install emacs-x11. After a daemon is started, "emacsclient -c" invokes a w32 frame, while "emacsclient [-n]" gets a terminal session. I feel great about this. You

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/21/2013 4:36 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: running octave from emacs on cygwin, is like putting two elephants on top of a hippo. The thing is, it used to work... My current workaround is to run octave in a separate shell window, but that is quite a bit less conv

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-21 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/21/2013 3:34 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: It's more complicated than that. But the problem has already been debugged and fixed in the emacs development trunk: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8855 Unfortunately, the fix won't make it into emacs-2

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Arthur Tu gmail.com> writes: > I use only the w32 interface for frame display and I haven't install > emacs-x11. After a daemon is started, "emacsclient -c" invokes a w32 > frame, while "emacsclient [-n]" gets a terminal session. I feel great > about this. > > Your problem may be caused by th

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-21 Thread Achim Gratz
marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: > running octave from emacs on cygwin, is like putting two elephants on > top of a hippo. The thing is, it used to work... My current workaround is to run octave in a separate shell window, but that is quite a bit less convenient. I've started emacs from a shell

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-21 Thread Arthur Tu
On 2/21/2013 4:34 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: It's more complicated than that. But the problem has already been debugged and fixed in the emacs development trunk: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8855 Unfortunately, the fix won't make it into emacs-2

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > It's more complicated than that. But the problem has already been > debugged and fixed in the emacs development trunk: > >http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8855 > > Unfortunately, the fix won't make it into emacs-24.3. Let's wait for 24.4 then..

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/20/2013 6:50 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: emacs-X11 now supports GNOME's GSettings and GConf features. As a consequence, it is important that you have a D-Bus session daemon running before starting emacs under X11. Otherwise, emacs will try to start one, and this

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-20 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/20/2013 12:50 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Even then, emacs-X11 (Cygwin running the latest snapshot from 2013-01-31) seems to have other problems with external processes. Trying to run octave from within Emacs and using the fltk plot utility shows (after quite some time) an empty plot window.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-20 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > emacs-X11 now supports GNOME's GSettings and GConf features. As a > consequence, it is important that you have a D-Bus session daemon > running before starting emacs under X11. Otherwise, emacs will try to > start one, and this can cause problems. I've tested

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/14/2013 6:02 AM, Václav Zeman wrote: On 13 February 2013 12:38, Ken Brown wrote: [...] A simple way to make sure that a D-Bus session daemon is running is to start it in your ~/.startxwinc file. If you already have a ~/.startxwinc file Small nit, you probably mean ~/.startxwinrc here. T

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: emacs*-24.2.93-2 (TEST)

2013-02-14 Thread Václav Zeman
On 13 February 2013 12:38, Ken Brown wrote: >[...] > A simple way to make sure that a D-Bus session daemon is running is to start > it in your ~/.startxwinc file. If you already have a ~/.startxwinc file Small nit, you probably mean ~/.startxwinrc here. >[...] -- VZ -- Problem reports: h