Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-8-i" Subject: RE: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs? Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:31:39 -0700 Message-ID: <1151EBFEB760994A96A622B835374E0F4C08DE@PA-ECLUSTER1.vmware.com> From: "David Masterson" To: Cc: , , , X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j79IWA0s019213 Joe Buehler wrote: > David Masterson wrote: > >> What versions of Emacs, XWin, and Cygwin are you talking about? >> When I install all of Cygwin 1.5.18 (including the X stuff), Emacs >> (under X) crashes on startup (a window comes up and then crashes >> when I wiggle the mouse) and XEmacs (under X) crashes on exit. >> This is on MS-Windows XP (SP2). > > The GNU emacs binary uses a number of dll's. Do you have any way > to try earlier versions of the dll's? One of them will be the cygwin > dll. There will also be some X11 dll's and some misc dll's that > handle jpeg images etc. I can try the Cygwin time machine if you can suggest a version to try. Are you saying, though, that the version of (X)Emacs that Cygwin installs is incompatible with the version of X that is installed? ---- David Masterson VMware, Inc. Palo Alto, CA -- 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/