I've been using emacs 23.1.1 via cygwin 1.7 all day without a problem. Thanks Ken for the tip. Thanks to the Cygwin team for a great job. Ken replied: > On 10/29/2009 9:28 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: > > Emacs under X (all three: native cygwin Xwin, X-win32, and Exceed) > > hangs intermittently consuming 100% of available CPU as shown by running > > 'top'. > > > > Here are some version stats: > > > > $ emacs -version > > GNU Emacs 21.2.1 > > $ uname -a > > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 harryr-pc 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin > > Emacs 21.2 is very old. My advice would be to upgrade cygwin to 1.7, > which provides emacs 23.1. If you don't want to do that, you can > install emacs 23.0.92 under cygwin 1.5, but it's shown as an > "experimental" version when you run setup.exe. > > Ken > > -- > 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
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