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

[Bingham, Jay]

David,

Thanks I will have a look at it.  But without ever having looked at it I
can see why I would never have thought to look there.  I am not
interested in running bash, I am interested in running diff, that you
have to run bash to run diff is not intuitively obvious.

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 -----Original Message-----
From:   David Starks-Browning [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent:   Wednesday, 12 December, 2001 10:41 a
To:     Bingham, Jay
Cc:     address@hidden
Subject:        RE: [h-e-w] Cant run ediff

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)