<snip> > > I also installed the October windows patches (Win 7) and my emacs changed > but in a different way. Everything works normally except when I try to read > an info file. > Apparently emacs thinks I suddenly speak French. Outside emacs info works > perfectly. I haven't had any time to investigate and I can't really see how they > could possibly be related to the patches. It does seem odd that the change > happened at the same time as the patches. Maybe Lisp and AI actually work > and lisp has become sentient and is starting early for Halloween.
To close the loop for the record, my situation had nothing to do with the windows patches. For reasons I haven't tracked down yet the emacs package system seems to have had a bad day. Emacs has a package system and some repositories for many of the modes and extensions available. After M-x list-packages you select packages of interest for installation or update and life is good. It seems one of the packages is damaged in the repo or it became corrupted during/after update. Oddly, it worked great for a day after package update but then the package system started adding some download package directories to the Info-directory-list which caused the emacs info mode to find the French versions before anything else. I still don't know what triggered the madness but it's definitely happening during the package load/init phase and has nothing to do with MS or the recent patches. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple