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From:	Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	GNU Emacs 22.3 and Vista
Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2009 04:14:22 -0700 (PDT)
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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.

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