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RE: emacs hanging on Cygwin
Oops, accidently replied to sender instead of mailing list. Message is
below.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Olivares [mailto:programmer2188@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:53 PM
> To: 'Ken Brown'
> Subject: RE: emacs hanging on Cygwin
>
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
> > Behalf Of Ken Brown
> > Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:36 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: emacs hanging on Cygwin
> >
> > On 4/12/2009 6:28 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote:
> > > I'm trying to start using emacs, but it keeps hanging, somewhat
> > randomly.
> > > Usually it is a few minutes after I start it, and I haven't been
> able
> > to
> > > notice a pattern. Other times it hangs when I try to close it. The
> > window
> > > exits from emacs, but then it just shows the bash shell without the
> > prompt
> > > redisplaying.
> >
> > Are you running emacs in the window you get by running cygwin.bat?
> If
> > so, you might need to set CYGWIN=tty first. Other alternatives are
> > mentioned in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg00459.html . Yet
> > another alternative is to use mintty.
> >
> > Ken
> >
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