Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-25 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 13:46, Bengt Larsson wrote: > Bengt Larsson wrote: >>Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >sigh, no ^X d (aka dired mode) by default ! True. I never use it. I kind of philosophically disagree with it. >>> >>>  Strange, as "dired" is one of the most important pieces of emacs

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-25 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 26.02.2011 01:24, schrieb Vorfeed Canal: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: And this is not an artificial limitation but there is no way that this could conceivably work. What do you mean "there is no way that this could conceivably work"? It worked in Linux till it was e

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-25 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/25/2011 05:24 PM, Vorfeed Canal wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> And this is not an artificial limitation but there is no way that this >> could conceivably work. > > What do you mean "there is no way that this could conceivably work"? > > It worked in Linux

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-25 Thread Vorfeed Canal
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > And this is not an artificial limitation but there is no way that this > could conceivably work. What do you mean "there is no way that this could conceivably work"? It worked in Linux till it was explicitly forbidden... See here, for examp

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-25 Thread David Rothenberger
On 2/25/2011 3:24 PM, David Rothenberger wrote: > I realize this report won't be terribly useful, but I did encounter > a problem with the latest snapshot. I have a local git > repository. With the snapshot, "git log" produces: > > 0 [main] git 4944 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - c

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.10-4

2011-02-25 Thread Eric Blake (cygwin)
A new release of bash, 4.1.10-4, has been uploaded and will soon reach a mirror near you; replacing 4.1.9-3 and leaving bash 3.2.51-24 as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor rebuild which picks up an upstream patch to fix memory corruption when using \W in $PS1. [Meanwhile, bash 4.2 has been re

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-25 Thread David Rothenberger
I realize this report won't be terribly useful, but I did encounter a problem with the latest snapshot. I have a local git repository. With the snapshot, "git log" produces: 0 [main] git 4944 C:\cygwin\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - could not load C:\WINDOWS\system32\winmm.dll, Win32 error

Re: Any pdf reader available for cygwin?

2011-02-25 Thread Hugh Myers
Cool--- missed that one. Thanks! --hsm -- 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

Re: Any pdf reader available for cygwin?

2011-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/25/2011 5:45 PM, Hugh Myers wrote: Do you mean wade through all of the pull downs and click accordingly or is there some more convenient way of selecting all? (not talking about xpdf here, talking about a 'complete' Cygwin install) No. Use the "widget" next to "All" in the "Category" view

Re: Any pdf reader available for cygwin?

2011-02-25 Thread Hugh Myers
Do you mean wade through all of the pull downs and click accordingly or is there some more convenient way of selecting all? (not talking about xpdf here, talking about a 'complete' Cygwin install) --hsm -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: Any pdf reader available for cygwin?

2011-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/25/2011 5:26 PM, Hugh Myers wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Weiqi Gao> wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:02 PM, gviewer> wrote: Thanks for letting me know you know of. I can view PDF files with xpdf (which is part of the "install everything" installation of Cygwin). What "in

Re: Any pdf reader available for cygwin?

2011-02-25 Thread Hugh Myers
What "install everything" installation of Cygwin? --hsm On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Weiqi Gao wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:02 PM, gviewer wrote: >> >> Thanks for letting me know you know of. > > I can view PDF files with xpdf  (which is part of the "install > everything" installation

Re: Any pdf reader available for cygwin?

2011-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/25/2011 5:02 PM, gviewer wrote: Thanks for letting me know you know of. No, there's nothing specifically for Cygwin in the distro. Of course, there are plenty of readers for native Windows. -- Larry _ A: Yes. Q: Are

Re: Any pdf reader available for cygwin?

2011-02-25 Thread Weiqi Gao
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:02 PM, gviewer wrote: > > Thanks for letting me know you know of. I can view PDF files with xpdf (which is part of the "install everything" installation of Cygwin). -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- Problem reports: http://c

Any pdf reader available for cygwin?

2011-02-25 Thread gviewer
Thanks for letting me know you know of. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Any-pdf-reader-available-for-cygwin--tp31016755p31016755.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

interactive shell mis-parsing 1st two words on line

2011-02-25 Thread Tom Rodman
Thanks for all that contribute to cygwin, I use it day in day out, year after year. -- After loading bash 4.1.9 recently, I have been getting sporatic errors in an interactive bash shell. The first word on the commandline is run w/o any args, next the rest of the line is run by the shell (2nd wor

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-25 Thread Bengt Larsson
Bengt Larsson wrote: >Kenneth Wolcott wrote: sigh, no ^X d (aka dired mode) by default ! >>> >>> True. I never use it. I kind of philosophically disagree with it. >> >> Strange, as "dired" is one of the most important pieces of emacs and >>when one says "emacs" and then says "but this version

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.9.6-1

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Brown
Peter Brown llnl.gov> writes: > > Hello Andy, > I figured out how to do what I want using an alternative config file. Thanks anyway. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html U

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.9.6-1

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Brown
Andy Koppe gmail.com> writes: > > mintty 0.9.6-1 is on its way to the Cygwin mirrors, with a couple of > fixes and enhancements. > Hello Andy, I really love mintty, and use it everyday. However, I just updated my version yesterday, and discovered that the zoom option doesn't work as it did be

Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin

2011-02-25 Thread Bengt Larsson
Kenneth Wolcott wrote: >>>sigh, no ^X d (aka dired mode) by default ! >> >> True. I never use it. I kind of philosophically disagree with it. > > Strange, as "dired" is one of the most important pieces of emacs and >when one says "emacs" and then says "but this version doesn't have >'dired'", the

Re: wcwidth and terminals [Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin]

2011-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 25 09:05, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 24.02.2011 09:56, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >When on Cygwin, you might better use Cygwin's(*) wcwidth function. It's > >based on the same code from Markus Kuhn, but it interacts with the > >setlocale function to make sure that the width returned for the

Re: Please test latest developer snapshot

2011-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On various days, various members of the Cygwin community wrote: > [...snapshot testing...] Wow, that's all pretty good news. Thanks to all of you for testing the snapshots. Stay tuned for the release. Thanks again, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cyg

wcwidth and terminals [Re: Mg3a - a version of Mg2a developed on Cygwin]

2011-02-25 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 24.02.2011 09:56, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: When on Cygwin, you might better use Cygwin's(*) wcwidth function. It's based on the same code from Markus Kuhn, but it interacts with the setlocale function to make sure that the width returned for the CJK ambiguous width characters makes sense in