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Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs?
- From: Joe Buehler <jbuehler at spirentcom dot com>
- To: ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il
- Cc: emacs_user at hotmail dot com, emacs-pretest-bug at gnu dot org, emacs-devel at gnu dot org, jbuehler at spirentcom dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 07:36:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs?
- References: <BAY107-F8B4D21670F6A0DE5980E3F8B80@phx.gbl> <200508081031.j78AVjjE008727@beta.mvs.co.il>
- Reply-to: jbuehler at spirentcom dot com
Ehud Karni wrote:
AFAIK Joe Buehler is maintaining Cygwin Emacs. But may be he is not
subscribed to emacs-devel@gnu.org.
Cygwin specific Emacs problems should be discussed on cygwin@cygwin.com,
not on emacs-devel@gnu.org.
What are your problems ?
May be you did rebasing (especially rebase all) - it is known to
have a negative effect on Emacs.
I work with both Emacs 21.2 (distributed with Cygwin, prepared by
Joe Buehler) and Emacs 22.0.50 (updated from CVS and compiled on
2005-08-01), both in terminal mode and on X, and they work fine.
I am aware that there are some emacs problems with recent versions
of the Cygwin dll and looking at this is on my todo list. Various
things like a newborn and major layoffs at my place of employment
have made it difficult to do anything at the moment.
GNU emacs under Cygwin has been stable for quite a while, so my initial
take is that the problem is undoubtedly due to a change in the Cygwin
dll. Having spent lots and lots of hours tracking down various Cygwin
problems (mostly not emacs-port related) I am dreading having to look at
this particular problem. But like I said, it is on my todo list.
If you want a stable emacs at the moment, the best advice I can give
is to stick to older versions of the Cygwin dll until such time as I
can fix this. It's not a great situation, but normally one does not
have to debug the OS in order to maintain emacs!
--
Joe Buehler
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