#2 tabbar-mode for w95,98

[Bruce Ingalls]

I submitted a <b>Patch</b> for tabbar-mode.
tabbar-mode.el loads (requires) fine, but when I invoke
the tabbar-mode() defun (i.e., go into tabbar minor
mode) on MS Windows 98, it crashes Emacs :(
Note that more recent versions of Windows (2000, XP)
work fine.
Also, fwiw, the tabs do not show up in Cygwin Emacs,
but at least it does not cause problems.

My system was (fsf/gnu) Emacs v21.3 and tabbar v1.3 on
Windows 98. I assume that this affects w95, too.

Here is the patch, again:
(if
(or
(string-match "windows95" system-configuration)
(string-match "windows98" system-configuration))
(message "Tabbar does not support MS Windows 95 nor
98")
;;else continue with defun
(defun tabbar-mode ... )
)

[David Ponce]

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These problems look more as GNU Emacs bugs than tabbar ones.

AFAIK, Cygwin/GNU Emacs is still experimental.

About NT Emacs on W98/95 it could be worth sending a bug
report on
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. However it is possible that these
platforms
aren't well supported.

Anyway, thanks for your patch. However, I would prefer to
document
that tabbar don't work on W98/95 for now.

David

[Bruce Ingalls]

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Cygwin GNU Emacs is not experimental. It is bundled with the
main cygwin distribution. You must tell setup.exe to install
the optional XFree86 and X Window Emacs packages.
I suspect that the Cygwin problems is that it is not
precompiled with a particular GUI toolkit that tabbar requires.