Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42F743BD.3060904@spirentcom.com> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:36:29 -0400 X-Sybari-Trust: 7149e69c a230148a e8e36281 0000013d From: Joe Buehler Reply-To: jbuehler@spirentcom.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il CC: emacs_user@hotmail.com, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jbuehler@spirentcom.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs? References: <200508081031.j78AVjjE008727@beta.mvs.co.il> In-Reply-To: <200508081031.j78AVjjE008727@beta.mvs.co.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-8-I; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ehud Karni wrote: > AFAIK Joe Buehler is maintaining Cygwin Emacs. But may be he is not > subscribed to emacs-devel@gnu.org. > > Cygwin specific Emacs problems should be discussed on cygwin@cygwin.com, > not on emacs-devel@gnu.org. > > What are your problems ? > > May be you did rebasing (especially rebase all) - it is known to > have a negative effect on Emacs. > > I work with both Emacs 21.2 (distributed with Cygwin, prepared by > Joe Buehler) and Emacs 22.0.50 (updated from CVS and compiled on > 2005-08-01), both in terminal mode and on X, and they work fine. I am aware that there are some emacs problems with recent versions of the Cygwin dll and looking at this is on my todo list. Various things like a newborn and major layoffs at my place of employment have made it difficult to do anything at the moment. GNU emacs under Cygwin has been stable for quite a while, so my initial take is that the problem is undoubtedly due to a change in the Cygwin dll. Having spent lots and lots of hours tracking down various Cygwin problems (mostly not emacs-port related) I am dreading having to look at this particular problem. But like I said, it is on my todo list. If you want a stable emacs at the moment, the best advice I can give is to stick to older versions of the Cygwin dll until such time as I can fix this. It's not a great situation, but normally one does not have to debug the OS in order to maintain emacs! -- Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/