Re: Migrating .emacs Configuration File to Newer Emacsen

2005-08-06 Thread Richard M. Stallman
Please avoid pointing at each other blaming for the fault, Emacs maintenance should be in cathedral mode instead of bazaar mode because it is an important infrastructure and deregulation and privatising infrastructures hasn't yielded the benefits promised, but worsened ser

Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs?

2005-08-11 Thread Richard M. Stallman
When GC encounters a fatal inconsistency in the Emacs data structures, it is generally unsafe to say anything, since that could easily cause a nested fatal signal. It would also not be very useful, since any info we could put into such an error message could be quickly discovered by a

Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs?

2005-08-12 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I have to disgree with that, it's the instant gut ueber-programmer reaction to such problems. Currently the user just gets an exiting emacs, leaving me with no clue as to why emacs exited. It crashed. It has a bug. What more is there to say? I then have to provide instru