Re: [Bug: 21.4.13] Cygwin XEmacs cut-and-past broken on Win2000
--- Mike Spertus <Mike.Spertus(a)veritas.com> wrote:
Rick Rankin wrote:
> Mike,
>
> This appears to be something in your configuration. I just ran the net
> installer to install the cygwin build of 21.4.13 on two separate
> windows 2000
> boxes, and cut-n-paste works perfectly with the windows clipboard on both
> machines. Perhaps you're loading something in your init file that's
> fouling up
> the clipboard interaction?
>
Looks like the problem is (gnuserv-start) in my .xemacs/init.el, which
contains:
(require 'gnuserv)
(gnuserv-start)
(setq gnuserv-frame (selected-frame))
Am I doing the right thing? How should I handle this?
This looks very much like the subprocess problem I mentioned earlier. If this
is what I suspect, it was actually a Cygwin problem that was corrected *after*
the release of 1.5.5-1, which is the most current release available through
Cygwin's setup program. *Assuming* that you're currently running 1.5.5-1,
here's what you need to do:
1) Download the current DLL snapshot (cygwin1-20031127.dll.bz2) from
http://sourceware.redhat.com/cygwin/snapshots into a temporary directory.
2) Uncompress it.
3) Save your existing cygwin1.dll
4) Copy the snapshot DLL over the current one.
Note that steps 3 & 4 *MUST* be done from a regular Windows command prompt or
Explorer, *NOT* from any Cygwin shell. In fact, you must be sure to terminate
all Cygwin-related processes (remember to check for services such as inetd,
sshd, PostgreSQL's postmaster, etc.) before performing steps 3 & 4.
Once you've updated the DLL, the cut-n-paste problem should go away.
--Rick