Hello, I have just installed NTEmacs 22.1 on my Windows 98SE box side-by-side v21.3 (I unzipped the archive, then installed Emacs in C\:Programme\Emacs\emacs221, and adjusted my .emacs file so that there are no more error messages, as I did with the earlier versions).
These points have made me go back to v21.3 for working: - As opposed to v21.3 the Windows explorer dialogue does not appear in 22.1 when selecting File|open; you have to input the file name in minibuffer or use the speedbar (which I don't want to use for it is a rather crude interface indeed). I understand that I am not the only one missing the Windows dialogue here. Is there a solution to this? - My mouse cursor does not behave as expected. When selecting a menu item and hovering over the drop-down menu the cursor is sometimes displayed as an "input cursor", ie., a vertical line as when hovering over text in 22.1, sometimes it is displayed as a "hand" like in a WWW browser windows when hovering over a URL link. This behaviour can be reproduced. - The all new drag and drop feature does not work at all. - Running v22.1 sometimes makes Windows explorer freeze or even crash. I also could not open the start menu once, it just froze with the Start button appearing pressed in, but did not open. I had to reset and restart my system manually. Could it be that this is a problem on Win98 only? I could not find anything in the Windows Readme nor in the Emacs manual. Perhaps v22.1 has not been tested sufficiently on Win98? Or could it be that something from my .emacs still refers to the parallel installation of v21.3, triggering these effects? Could this be due to changes in functions or variables called or set in the .emacs file? Hm... All in all, I think the earlier version was much better integrated into a Windows environment and it really ran rock-steady for hours (I wrote my dissertation thesis on 21.3 with AUCTeX all day long for months). However, if you please could solve the above-mentioned points I think this could still become a good start for the new version on Windows... Regards, Jürgen.
