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 Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:32:16 -0600 From: Charles Plager Subject: Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading To: Cygwin Mailing list Message-id: <402164E0.506@fnal.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 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 whatever > the latest XFree86 was then, along with the other goodness cygwin's > setup advised me to get. Since then emacs life has been bad, but I'm > not sure why, since available evidence seems to point in several > directions. > > Note that I run emacs via > > emacs --debug-init & > > from bash in an xterm which I launch with > > start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons > > I typically run 2 emacs windows (second created with C-x 5 b) and > 1 xterm, all of which usually overlap ... until the emacs windows > disappear, apparently randomly, although lately I'm convinced that > emacs crashes are more likely when I'm either resizing or > minimizing its windows. I've so far run 2 cygwin sessions today, > once at home (with access to shared drives via a VPN) and once at > work (directly on ethernet), and the xterm traces have been: These problems seem very similar to what I see when using Emacs, except that I use Exceed as my X windows server. I see similar (but not quite identical in frequency) problems with both emacs 21.2-12 and 21.2-11. Charles -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Charles Plager cplager+ucla AT fnal DOT gov Dept of Physics, UCLA http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/~cplager office: (1) 630-840-2575 fax: (1) 630-840-2968 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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/