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Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.
- From: ht at cogsci dot ed dot ac dot uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 10:47:03 +0100
- Subject: Re: 1.5.4-1: Problem with XEmacs, fonts, and subprocesses.
- References: <CFF3E15126A0EF4F96D9FABED7A40266715A49@mail.i.turbinegames.com><3F7F1883.4070809@urth.org>
Terrence Brannon <metaperl@urth.org> writes:
>>I have just recently upgraded to the latest Cygwin and latest XEmacs.
>>Now, whenever I invoke a subprocess in XEmacs, all text in the XEmacs
>>frame goes blank. I am using zsh as my shell, but the problem always
>>occurs whether I am invoking a subshell, compiling, grepping, or running
>>gnu-serv. I am running Windows XP Pro SP1 and XEmacs 21.4.13.
My experience was similar, and the work-around I found successful was
to launch xemacs from rxvt/bash, rather than from the Task Bar or
Start Menu. I spent a fair amount of time attempting to discover
whether there was an environment variable which accounted for this,
but failed.
If you're _really_ obsessive (like me :-( about launching from an
icon, compile the following and point the icon at it.
Hope this helps,
ht
#define WIN32
#include <windows.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <process.h>
int WINAPI
WinMain (HINSTANCE hSelf, HINSTANCE hPrev, LPSTR cmdline, int nShow) {
STARTUPINFO start;
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES sec_attrs;
SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR sec_desc;
PROCESS_INFORMATION child;
int retval;
memset (&start, 0, sizeof (start));
start.cb = sizeof (start);
start.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
start.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE;
sec_attrs.nLength = sizeof (sec_attrs);
sec_attrs.lpSecurityDescriptor = NULL;
sec_attrs.bInheritHandle = FALSE;
if (CreateProcess (NULL, "c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash -c \"/usr/local/bin/i686-pc-cygwin/xemacs -f gnuserv-start\"", &sec_attrs, NULL, TRUE, 0,
NULL, NULL, &start, &child))
{
CloseHandle (child.hThread);
CloseHandle (child.hProcess);
}
else
exit(1);
return retval;
}
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