X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: GNU Emacs 22.3 and Vista Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 04:14:22 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 22 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238584462 17162 127.0.0.1 (1 Apr 2009 11:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: r28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Okay, I know GNU Emacs 22.3 isn't maintained anymore, but I had still more network issues lately (stupid severe thunderstorms), so I finally stopped procrastinating and rebuilt 22.3 with GCC 4.2.3 on my XP machine (with two tiny patches from Eli and using SYSTEM_MALLOC instead of REL_ALLOC). I deleted some unnecessary files and compressed everything (30 MB .7z file! that's all srcs, EXEs, Lisp texts, LEIM, .tex srcs, .el and .elc files, etc.) and trucked it on over to my Vista laptop via USB jumpdrive, and it seems to work: 100 MB "enwik8" fully loads correctly, even copying enwik8 + enwik8 into a 200 MB file works. Also, tetris and gomoku work, haven't really tested much else yet besides the normal stuff. But at least once built (on a non-Vista machine) it *seems* to run fine on Vista. So that's good. (As far as building 23.0 on Vista, I'll probably try again, but I may end up deleting what I have and resyncing the whole thing from CVS again to start fresh.) I don't know offhand all the stuff that is new since 20.5, but some interesting ones are woman (w/o man), 256 MB buffers, UTF-8, Eshell, KMacro, Calc and Python modes, font-lock on by default, and lots of other goodies (see Antinews). P.S. Why is Vista SP1's NTVDM (Jan. 2008) four months *older* than XP SP3's?? And oddly enough, Vista seems to like DJGPP v1 apps more than XP (GPF unless you use RSX), go figure.