Re: AW: emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

2015-05-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 19 08:21, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/19/2015 1:52 AM, Martin Anantharaman wrote: > >Ken, > > > >you were on the right track there: I do not run bash in a windows console, > >but not in mintty either - I have been using Console2 for many years as > >common terminal for cmd, msys and cygwin. When

Re: AW: emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

2015-05-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/19/2015 1:52 AM, Martin Anantharaman wrote: Ken, you were on the right track there: I do not run bash in a windows console, but not in mintty either - I have been using Console2 for many years as common terminal for cmd, msys and cygwin. When I run my test in a mintty windows everything wor

Re: emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

2015-05-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/18/2015 8:34 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/18/2015 1:57 AM, Martin Anantharaman wrote: Ken, so that we do not get side-tracke by differences in our emacs-customizations I now re-produced the error in a "clean" environment, i.e. I unset ALTERNATE_EDITOR and did the following: Did you also mak

Re: emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

2015-05-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/18/2015 1:57 AM, Martin Anantharaman wrote: Ken, so that we do not get side-tracke by differences in our emacs-customizations I now re-produced the error in a "clean" environment, i.e. I unset ALTERNATE_EDITOR and did the following: Did you also make sure that EMACS_SERVER_FILE was not se

emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

2015-05-17 Thread Martin Anantharaman
Ken, so that we do not get side-tracke by differences in our emacs-customizations I now re-produced the error in a "clean" environment, i.e. I unset ALTERNATE_EDITOR and did the following: $ emacs --daemon -Q Starting Emacs daemon. $ emacsclient .shrc Waiting for Emacs... *ERROR*: Could not open

Re: AW: emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

2015-05-17 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/17/2015 3:44 AM, Martin Anantharaman wrote: Ken, thanks for your quick reply. Regarding the problem with emacs --daemon I should have given the following background: 1) The commands in my listing (it was actually an attached text-file - which automagically got inlined into the posting) need

AW: emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

2015-05-17 Thread Martin Anantharaman
Ken, thanks for your quick reply. Regarding the problem with emacs --daemon I should have given the following background: 1) The commands in my listing (it was actually an attached text-file - which automagically got inlined into the posting) need to be executed in that sequence, i.e. emacs --daem

Re: emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

2015-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/15/2015 7:22 AM, Martin Anantharaman wrote: - Crash in server-mode: One of the advantages of Cygwin emacs-w32 is that it supports the server-mode via invocation with --daemon (also coming soon to official Emacs!). But using emacsclient wihtout any options first gives an error and then crashe

emacs-w32 24.5.1: Crashes with --daemon and in "About Emacs"

2015-05-15 Thread Martin Anantharaman
After being a long-time user of the official (MinGW-based) Emacs for Windows, I am making the transition to Cygwin's emacs-w32, mainly to profit from the large base of supplementary packages in Cygwin and the automated update via setup. The transition has not been completely smooth, though, for the