Re: Cygwin emacs - does it work?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
> > I just out of curiosity installed Cygwin Emacs. Now I am more curious 
> > about why this version of Emacs is there.
> >
> > For me nearly nothing works in this Emacs. For example typing C-c 
> > results in C-g. Trying to examine a variable results in the error 
> > message "Cannot open load file: pp". Trying to send a bug report I am 
> > told that Emacs can not load emacsbug. Etc.
> >
> > The about page says
> >
> >
> >   GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i686-pc-cygwin)
> >    of 2007-07-19 on HERRING
> >
> >
> > Is there anyone to contact about this?
>
> Which package have you installed?

The first I installed was

  Editors
    emacs: The extensible, customizable ...

That is the one which has the problems I reported above.

Then later I installed the X version

  Editors:
    emacs-X11: ...

This works (as far as I tested, I do not know Emacs 21 very well).

> In Cygwin the current version of Emacs is 21.2-13, instead 22.1 is in 
> the test section, i.e. it is an experimental package.
>
> It is more than an year that it is there without being promoted to 
> current because people reported it crashes (see [1] and its replays).
>
> The fact is that since version 22 Emacs is unstable when built with 
> gcc-3.4.4 (the current version on Cygwin) and its maintainer on Cygwin 
> is waiting for 4... series, with which it is enough stable. Perhaps this 
> explain why 22.2 isn't neither in test version.

Thanks, I see, but then perhaps the package I installed should be 
removed, because it does not work either (at least not for me).

> Following [1], you can find other useful information.
>
>
> Cheers,
>    Angelo.
>
> ---
> [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00609.html