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

[Simon Green]

>>>>> "Bingham, Jay <address@hidden> writes:

 > 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.

I don't run bash as my default shell under NTEmacs, and I can use ediff without
problems:

As far as I can remember (and a quick look round my config files shows nothing
to the contrary) all I did to set it up was:
- install cygwin
- add cygwin/bin to my default PATH.  I do it to the system wide path 'cos I
  like having the utilities there.  You could try just adding it to emacs'
  exec-path if you don't want to do it globally for some reason.

That's it.  A quick test runing
emacs -q --no-site-file
followed by a successful 'ediff-files' would seem to support this.

HTH

--Simon


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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)