Re: shell problems after upgrading NTEmacs from 19.34 to 21.2

[Swengtoo]

swengtoo@my-deja.com (Swengtoo) wrote in message 
news:<b72a5ae6.0210250510.492b9535@posting.google.com>...
> But now I need to know why the same statement wouldn't work from my
> .emacs - is it possible that evaluation stops prior to reaching this
> statement (again, only in 21.2, not in 19.34...). If this is the case,
> then I am even more puzzled since I encapsulated my original .emacs
> within the following:
> 
> (setq debug-on-error t)
> < original .emacs >
> (setq debug-on-error nil)
> 
> to enable debug - and emacs does not report ANY errors.
> 
> What am I missing here?
> 

I finally solved the problem (thanks to single-step lisp debugging in
Emacs):
My shell customization code was conditioned by (eq window-system
'win32).

Well, guess what? in Emacs 19.34 window-system contained "win32" for
the NTEmacs environment, but now in Emacs 21.2 window-system returns
now "w32".

That's what has changed. I wish I could have read it somewhere in the
news without having to go through this debug effort (I am not a lisp
programmmer).

Anyway, now the problem is solved, thank you everybody and I hope that
this tip will help someone.

Swengtoo