xemacs crashes with SIGSEGV after update

Siegmar Gross Siegmar.Gross@informatik.hs-fulda.de
Thu Apr 9 17:40:00 GMT 2015


Hi,

>     > today I updated all packages of my 32-Bit Cygwin installation 
> (installed
>     > on top of Windows 7). After that xemacs crashed if I tried to 
> open a
>     > file. Therefore I reinstalled the older version 
> xemacs-21.4.23.1.
>     > Unfortunately the older version crashes as well. I can start 
> xemacs
>     > without command line arguments.
>
> Try with
>
> (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t)
>
> in your .emacs/.xemacs

Great! Your advise solved the problem. I added the command to
.xemacs/init.el and now everything works as before. Can you
explain why this command is necessary now and what it does?
Thank you very much for a short answer in advance.


Thank you very much for your help

Siegmar


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