Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: emacs-21.2-3 known problems, some solutions Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:06:28 -0400 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <3D5A55D4.8060901@hekimian.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029330330 10181 206.205.138.10 (14 Aug 2002 13:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:05:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en There appear to be several problems with emacs-21.2-3. To wit: - Colors are not correct when running in a cygwin console window. This is because the "cygwin" TERM type supports color, and emacs is using black on black for colors, which may be a bona-fide emacs bug. An easy fix is to invoke emacs like this: emacs -bg COLOR -fg COLOR Looking at the emacs source, it appears that the legal values for COLOR are: white, cyan, magenta, blue, yellow, green, red, black - The win9x binaries are missing .exe suffixes. This will be fixed in packages to be released shortly. - There is some kind of serious install problem. I have repackaged emacs using GNU tar instead of GNU cpio -- the tar documentation says that POSIX tar is not supported, and that's what I was generating with cpio, so maybe therein lies the problem. - It looks like control-C is not being passed to emacs when running in a cygwin console window. I'll have to look into this. Probably the windows control-C handler is not being turned off. This is a major problem because C-x C-c is the standard way to exit emacs... - EOF is not handled properly in processes in some cases in X11 emacs. Emacs does not recognize that the process exited. This probably has something to do with pty handling. Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/