Re: XEmacs 21.4.13 + Cygwin + (while t)

Adrian Aichner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.windows
Organization The XEmacs Project
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Stodghill <[email protected]> writes:

    >>> Try this under cygwin
    >>> 
    >>> $ xemacs -vanilla
    >>> (while t) Ctrl-J
    >>> 
    >>> Now try Ctrl-G. Now try Ctrl-Shift-G. Nothing aborts the computation.
    >>> 
    >>> I checked the archives and I saw some messages between Ben, Andy and
    >>> myself back in 2001 about this. Can someone tell me where this stands?
    >> 
    >> When I switched on the code to make this work it would lock up XEmacs
    >> regularly. Ben did some work in this area but I don't know whether its
    >> supposed to be fixed or not

    Paul> Today I was using AUC-TeX mode for the first time in a long
    Paul> time, and XEmacs was locking up on me about every 5
    Paul> minutes. The symptoms are similar to what I described above.

That was a cygwin XEmacs, right?

    Paul> What is the recommended way of dealing with this? Does
    Paul> Native XEmacs suffer the same problem? Does using Cygwin

No, in 21.4.13 native windows XEmacs (while t) can be interrupted just
fine with C-g.

    Paul> XEmacs under X as opposed to MSW fix the problem?

I don't understand.   Shouldn't this be the other way around?
You are using cygwin, right?

Best regards,

Adrian

    Paul> Thanks for your help.

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