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RE: emacs hanging on Cygwin
Hi,
Thanks a lot. Reinstalling libncurses worked great.
Brandon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> Behalf Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:04 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: emacs hanging on Cygwin
>
> On 4/13/2009 3:58 AM, Brandon Olivares wrote:
>
> >> CYGWIN is already set to tty, among other values. But that report
> >> doesn't accurately describe the problem I'm having.
> >>
> >> The problem is that the emacs window becomes unresponsive seemingly
> at
> >> random, and I have to either kill the process emacs.exe from Windows
> >> task manager, or open another cygwin terminal and kill the process.
> >>
> >> When it becomes unresponsive, I cannot move the cursor, execute any
> >> commands, nor exit emacs.
> >>
> >> The first time it happened, I was just trying to switch between
> windows
> >> within emacs with C-x o. The next time, I was trying to open another
> >> file. I can't remember what prompted all of the other times. Also
> >> sometimes it hangs when trying to exit.
> >>
> >> I'm running Windows Vista, by the way. I forgot to mention that in
> my
> >> original email.
>
> The only other thing I know of that sometimes solves emacs/cygwin
> problems is reinstalling libncurses7. You'll find a lot of messages in
> the mailing list archives about that. If that doesn't do it, you
> should
> probably follow the instructions in the "Problem reports" link below,
> especially the part about attaching cygcheck output. Maybe one of the
> cygwin experts will spot something.
>
> Ken
>
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