[h-e-w] Re: Cygwin and Emacs on Vista

[dsyzling]

Scott Fordin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't get Emacs to work on Cygwin on Vista. Xemacs works
> just fine, but Emacs doesn't. When I try to launch Emacs in
> GUI mode from an xterm, the shell just hangs. When I try to
> launch it in console mode from a non-X bash shell, the shell
> just hangs. Again, Xemacs works; it's only Emacs that doesn't
> work. Running emacs-nox doesn't help. I've also tried using
> the -d and -nw options, but no joy.
>
> I'm running Cygwin on Windows Vista Home Premium SP1, as
> follows:
>
>    $ uname -a
>    CYGWIN_NT-6.0 balance 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-04-17 12:11 i686 Cygwin
>
> The version of Emacs I'm using is one that came with the
> Cygwin distribution, and is version 21.2.1.

Not just me then, same problem here fails on Vista and Windows Server 
2008. I have 21.2.1 running fine within a Windows XP virtual machine 
though, so something specifically about the Vista kernel version.

I've yet to try later builds to see if this cures the problem - i.e. 23.3.


Darren