Re: emacs problems

2018-01-13 Thread Ken Brown
[Please send problem reports to the Cygwin mailing list, not to individual package maintainers.] On 1/13/2018 12:17 PM, Klaus Morawetz wrote: Dear Ken Brown, sorry to bother with a problem with emacs on cygwin 64 windows 10: it gives the warning ** (emacs:8444): WARNING **: Error retrieving a

Re: re emacs problems

2004-09-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Koskie, Sarah wrote: > [snip] > I'm still hoping someone can comment on what emacs I should install to > get the normal robust behavior I've come to expect from emacses. Isn't the official plural "emacsen"? ;-) I'm a vi person, so I don't know for sure... > Unrelated issue:

re emacs problems

2004-09-20 Thread Koskie, Sarah
> You might be better to modify the root - /etc/passwd, but I'm kinda You're right John. Thanks. In fact, I later (after sending that email) found that that was the problem and changed the home directory there. Now the lines in the .login (copied from /etc/csh.login work correctly for my tcsh sh

RE: EMACS problems with Cygwin 1.5.7.1

2004-02-17 Thread andy . glew
> As a software developer, I'm sure you know the value of development > snapshots[*] (and trying them out). :-) > FWIW, "Ehud Karni" reported in > that the latest > snapshot *does* fix his problem. > Igor > [*] See

Re: EMACS problems with cygwin 1.5.7.1

2004-02-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:30:25PM -0500, Thomas L Roche wrote: >That being said, emacs is still not nearly as stable now as it was on >1.5.5-1--in fact, I got an exit 128 (haven't seen one of those before, >usually it's just SEGVs) while composing this reply. So while I don't >believe Plager's res

Re: EMACS problems with Cygwin 1.5.7.1

2004-02-17 Thread Thomas L Roche
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 andyglewamdcom wrote: >> I have been seeing the same frequent crashes of EMACS on CYGWIN >> 1.5.7.1 that "Ehud Karni" and >> "Charles Plager" have >> already reported to this list. >> Grepping further: >>Thomas L Roche us.ibm.com> >>Dr.. Volkmer Zell Igor Pechtchans

Re: EMACS problems with Cygwin 1.5.7.1

2004-02-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 andyglewamdcom wrote: > In case anyone keeeps track, I have been seeing the same frequent > crashes of EMACS on CYGWIN 1.5.7.1 that "Ehud Karni" mvs dot co dot il> and "Charles Plager" ucla dot edu> have already reported to this list. > > Grepping further: >Thomas L Roche

EMACS problems with Cygwin 1.5.7.1

2004-02-17 Thread andy . glew
In case anyone keeeps track, I have been seeing the same frequent crashes of EMACS on CYGWIN 1.5.7.1 that "Ehud Karni" and "Charles Plager" have already reported to this list. Grepping further: Thomas L Roche us.ibm.com> Dr.. Volkmer Zell all seem to report similar problems. As do many

Re: unzip problem after upgrading, was: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:09:37PM -0500, Thomas L Roche wrote: >Am I missing something? Actual debugging of the problem, with a debugger? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://c

unzip problem after upgrading, was: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-11 Thread Thomas L Roche
Please excuse my delay in debugging this: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: >> However I'm also, again only since upgrading [cygwin, from >> 1.5.5-1], having problems with unzip, e.g. >> > inflating: >> /d/eclipse/builds/20040121_1953-WB213-AD-V512D-00/eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.etools.j2

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-08 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
This is your copy. Article has been posted to the newsgroup(s). * Tue 2004-02-03 Thomas L Roche us.ibm.com> gnu.emacs.help * | | [Cygwin] | $ emacs --debug-init & | $ start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons | | I typically r

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-04 Thread Thomas L Roche
First, emacs: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: >> [snip] >> Note that I run emacs via >> emacs --debug-init & >> from bash in an xterm which I launch with >> start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons Igor Pechtchanski 02/04/2004 04:21:29 PM (rearranged) > Not quite. Judging

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-04 Thread Charles Plager
Thomas L Roche wrote: I was annoyed by some shortcomings of my cygwin emacs (21.1? whatever version was included around the time of cygwin-1.5.5-1), such as lack of electricity with kill-ring-save and oddity with multiline kill'ing, so ~29 Jan I upgraded to cygwin-1.5.6-1, emacs-21.2.1, and whateve

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: > [snip] > Note that I run emacs via > > emacs --debug-init & > > from bash in an xterm which I launch with > > start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons Not quite. Judging from your cygcheck output, you use startxwin.bat. More below. > [snip]

cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-03 Thread Thomas L Roche
rading from 1.5.5-1). I noted Christopher Faylor Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:43:54 -0500 (EST) > Changes since 1.5.6-1: > - Fix malloc overflow problem which caused random SEGVs. > (Christopher Faylor) and installed cygwin 1.5.7-1 (along with other then-updated packages, which included XFree86)