This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs?


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


-- 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/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]