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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:47:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Jim Goltz <goltz AT mmert DOT org>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs 100% cpu usage bug
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On 21 Nov 2002, Jim Goltz wrote:

> Zdzislaw Meglicki writes:
>
> zm> I have downloaded and installed the latest, I presume, version of
> zm> Cygwin, with some additional updates downloaded only today from a
> zm> NASA Cygwin mirror, and... I am still plagued by the "emacs 100%
> zm> CPU usage bug", i.e., when emacs is invoked in the X11
> zm> environment, it spins and doesn't come up. When it is invoked in a
> zm> no-X11 environment, it works fine.
>
> I'm having the same problem. I'm running Cygwin 1.3.15-2 (the latest
> as of this date). "emacs -nw" from a cygwin shell works fine, although
> control characters are mapped oddly (ctrl-H is backward-delete-char-
> untabify, ctrl-C is keyboard-quit, etc.). "emacs" attempts to start
> the X version of Emacs, which grabs 100% of the CPU time and locks the
> system, regardless of whether an X server is running. Other X apps
> (local and remote) work just fine.
>
> This started happening after an upgrade about a week ago.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

I think the point of the message you quoted was in the part that you left
out.  It said "try the latest snapshot".  See http://cygwin.com/ for
details (if you don't find it at first glance, just search that page for
"snapshot").
	Igor
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