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RE: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Ken Brown
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:04 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: How to run GNU Emacs from Windows icon
> 
> On 6/5/2009 3:25 PM, David Karr wrote:
> >> 1. Send cygcheck output (as an attachment) as requested at
> >> http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> >
> > Attached.
> 
> Two things jump out at me.  First, it's clear from the environment
> variables that you ran cygcheck from a shell within emacs.  I don't
> think it matters in this case, but in general it's probably best not to
> do that, since you want to see the environment *before* starting emacs.
>    Emacs changes some of the variables.

Regenerated, and reattached.

> More importantly, I see this:
> 
> > CYGWIN = 'check_case:strict tty'
> 
> I don't know whether this could be causing your problem, but the cygwin
> user's guide (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) says
> the following:
> 
> check_case:level - THIS OPTION IS DEPRECATED. Don't use it unless you
> know what you're doing and don't see any way around it. And even then,
> this option is error prone, slows down Cygwin and not well maintained.

Hmph.  When I read the documentation for a framework, I almost always go
directly to the PDF, if it's available.  The PDF doesn't say anything about
this being deprecated.  I wouldn't have used it if it had.  If I'm
interpreting the modification date on the file properly, this PDF hasn't
been regenerated in 5 years.

Looking at this also made me realize a silly mistake I was making, in that I
was setting CYGWIN in my .bashrc, not in my system env vars.  I fixed that,
and also removed "check_case", but it had no obvious effect.

> On 6/5/2009 3:44 PM, David Karr wrote:
> >> Ok, I've done some searching, but I can't figure out how to get this
> >> package.  I've never installed experimental packages before.  The
> latest
> >> available from setup.exe, even in experimental state, is 22.1-3.  I
> assume
> >> I'm looking for -23.0.92-2?
> 
> Just run setup.exe, locate the emacs packages, and repeatedly click on
> the version number in the "New" column.  It cycles through all of the
> choices, one of which should be 23.0.92-2.

Ah, yes.  It's been a while.  Proceeding.

Attachment: cygcheck.out
Description: Binary data

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