Re: [h-e-w] NTEmacs 22.1 on Win 98SE

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juergen Fenn <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:08:56 +0200
> 
> - As opposed to v21.3 the Windows explorer dialogue does not appear in
>   22.1 when selecting File|open; you have to input the file name in
>   minibuffer or use the speedbar (which I don't want to use for it is
>   a rather crude interface indeed). I understand that I am not the
>   only one missing the Windows dialogue here. Is there a solution to
>   this? 

This works as expected on Windows 2K and XP.  If you can debug this
and tell us what goes wrong, we will be happy to fix it.  None of the
maintainers of the Windows port of Emacs use or have good access to
Windows 9x, so it's not a surprise there are bugs there. 

> - My mouse cursor does not behave as expected. When selecting a menu
>   item and hovering over the drop-down menu the cursor is sometimes
>   displayed as an "input cursor", ie., a vertical line as when
>   hovering over text in 22.1, sometimes it is displayed as a "hand"
>   like in a WWW browser windows when hovering over a URL link. This
>   behaviour can be reproduced.

Again, I don't see this on XP.

> - The all new drag and drop feature does not work at all.

Could you please describe in detail what happens? (assuming something
happens at all)

> - Running v22.1 sometimes makes Windows explorer freeze or even
>   crash. I also could not open the start menu once, it just froze with
>   the Start button appearing pressed in, but did not open. I had to
>   reset and restart my system manually.

Never saw this on XP.

> Could it be that this is a problem on Win98 only?

Yes, quite possibly, given the fact that none of the developers has
it, and only one pretester uses it.

> Or could it be that something from my .emacs still refers to the
> parallel installation of v21.3, triggering these effects? 

You could try running "emacs -Q" for a while to test this possibility.

> All in all, I think the earlier version was much better integrated
> into a Windows environment

Any details about this better integration?  I think v22.1 has quite a
few new features that make life easier for Windows users, but maybe
I'm missing something.  If you mean the above bugs, then this has
nothing to do with a better integration, bugs are just that--bugs.

> and it really ran rock-steady for hours

Well, this is only 22.1, let's hope that by the time we get to 22.3
things will be more solid ;-)