not able to run emacs 23 from cygwin 1.7.1

hi! I have installed the Emacs package again but it does not run. I opened the emacs file in windows and tried to add autosave-default-1 in the emacs file to stop autosave and after that when i tried to run emacs from the console it gives me the error bash: usr/bin/emacs: Permission denied.The

Re: not able to run emacs 23 from cygwin 1.7.1

On 1/17/2010 3:39 AM, Mahesh P wrote: hi! I have installed the Emacs package again but it does not run. I opened the emacs file in windows and tried to add autosave-default-1 in the emacs file to stop autosave and after that when i tried to run emacs from the console it gives me the error bash:

Re: not able to run emacs 23 from cygwin 1.7.1

On 1/17/2010 9:45 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 1/17/2010 3:39 AM, Mahesh P wrote: hi! I have installed the Emacs package again but it does not run. I opened the emacs file in windows and tried to add autosave-default-1 in the emacs file to stop autosave and after that when i tried to run emacs from

Is it time to promote emacs-23?

Based on what I've seen since emacs-23 became available for testing, I think it's probably time to promote it to current rather than experimental for people testing cygwin 1.7. That leaves a few weeks before the release of 1.7 to help emacs users with the transition from emacs-21 to emacs-23

Re: emacs 23

Ken Brown-6 wrote: On 5/13/2009 2:25 PM, Marc Girod wrote: The lines in the postinstall scripts involving desktop-database and mime-database were added by cygport, not by me. Indeed, no visible problem. One thing I noticed, is that I used cperl-mode 6.2, and 23.0.92 brought back 5.3

Re: emacs 23

built the plain vanilla source, which is intended for all platforms. I don't think the cygwin port should be different unless there's a good reason. I just byte-compile 6.2 on 23.0.92, and got a lot of warnings for various obsolete practices... That could explain why emacs-23 isn't shipping

emacs 23 (was: insert-directory function in Gnu emacs returns nil)

Ken Brown-6 wrote: (insert-directory /tmp -la) total 657 drwxrwxrwt 1 kbrown-admin None 0 May 13 11:57 . drwxr-xr-x 1 kbrown-admin None 0 Apr 14 11:07 .. -r--r--r-- 1 kbrown None 11 May 13 11:02 .X0-lock In fact, even when it produces something, it is not correct! I

Re: emacs 23

On 5/13/2009 1:04 PM, Marc Girod wrote: I downloaded and extracted everything, checked that I have all the prerequisites in the setup.hint files. Now, I just dump the files where they are expected? Yes. Or just use tar -C / ... on the original tarballs. Then go to /etc/postinstall and run

Re: emacs 23

Ken Brown-6 wrote: Then go to /etc/postinstall and run the postinstall scripts emacs.sh and emacs-X11.sh. (This is for the alternatives setup.) Two more requirements: - desktop-file-utils - shared-mime-info I get: postinstall ./emacs.sh ./emacs.sh: line 9:

Re: emacs 23

Marc Girod wrote: Now, there are some problems with the fonts... I have some holes, and otherwise hardly readable text... OK... Self-inflicted wound. I removed my -fn and the result is much better! Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default Fontset:

Re: emacs 23

On 5/13/2009 2:25 PM, Marc Girod wrote: Ken Brown-6 wrote: Then go to /etc/postinstall and run the postinstall scripts emacs.sh and emacs-X11.sh. (This is for the alternatives setup.) Two more requirements: - desktop-file-utils - shared-mime-info You don't really need these.

Re: emacs 23

On 5/13/2009 2:34 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/13/2009 2:25 PM, Marc Girod wrote: Ken Brown-6 wrote: Then go to /etc/postinstall and run the postinstall scripts emacs.sh and emacs-X11.sh. (This is for the alternatives setup.) Two more requirements: - desktop-file-utils - shared-mime-info