RE: [h-e-w] Cant run ediff

[David Starks-Browning]

On Wednesday 12 Dec 01, Bingham, Jay writes:
> I am having the same problem.  I have installed cygwin and the problem
> persists.  So there is more to making this work than just installing
> cygwin.  I have tried adding the path to the variable diff-command, this
> has not produced any different results.  So my question is once you have
> cygwin installed how do you tell emacs that it is there?  I have looked
> through the documentation on cygwin and have not found any mention of
> how this would be accomplished, nor can I find information in the emacs
> info pages (I did not really expect there to be any thing there since
> this is a problem peculiar to emacs on Windows).  The FAQ for emacs in
> windows does not have any information that I found useful.  All it says
> is to get cygwin and install it.

There is an entry in the Cygwin FAQ at <http://cygwin.com/faq/> called
"How do I run bash as a shell under NT Emacs?" which might help.  I'd
be interested to know if it does, as I maintain the entry.  I'm not
running 21.1 yet so I don't know if it applies.

Regards,
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)