Why my Emacs in Cygwin running on Windows Seven, always create Crash Dump?

Question

I quite satisfied of how GNU tools run in my Cygwin on Windows Seven. I think it\'s easier just to use GNU/Linux, but my company here has the policy of using Windows Seven for t

Answer 1

I have had this same problem in running console emacs through cygwin on Windows 7.

My solution to this was to install the native GNU Emacs Windows client: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ and set cygwin's bash.exe as my shell.

You can see my emacs.d/init.el at https://github.com/tildedave/init.el/blob/master/init.el: here is the part relevant to making sure that the Windows 7 Emacs plays well with cygwin --

(if is-windows 
    (progn 
      (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
                'shell-strip-ctrl-m nil t)
      (add-hook 'comint-output-filter-functions
                'comint-watch-for-password-prompt nil t)
      (setq explicit-shell-file-name "bash.exe")
      (setq shell-file-name explicit-shell-file-name)))

For light-weight in-console editing I use nano, which does not core dump.