X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5069F83D.5060502@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:08:29 -0400 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Emacs crashing on C-x C-g References: <5069E625 DOT 9050803 AT cs DOT utoronto DOT ca> <5069EA0D DOT 7080303 AT cornell DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <5069EA0D.7080303@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 01/10/2012 3:07 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 10/1/2012 2:51 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> I'm hitting a strange behavior with emacs lately, where hitting C-x C-g >> [1] sometimes causes it to quit instantly: no request to save files, no >> seg fault, no error message, just gone (have to reset the terminal to >> clear out emacs' ncurses settings). It invariably happens after I've >> been away from the terminal for a while (days) and then come back use it >> again. >> >> has anyone else had this happen to them? > I haven't seen it, and I do leave emacs running for days or weeks. > But I almost always run emacs under X, not in a terminal. Also, I > generally use the latest Cygwin snapshot. Have you tried that? Maybe > you're being bitten by the /etc problem that Corinna fixed in late > July (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00666.html). OK, I'll give the snapshot a try when I get a chance. Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple