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

[Jeremy Bowen]

You don't need to run bash to run ediff.

It's more likely to be a problem with your path and the Cygwin environment
(or possibly the way E21 is pre-configured).
Are you able to run "diff" from a command prompt ?

Can you "M-x shell" and execute diff from there ? (Can Emacs find diff.exe)
What is the value of the variable "ediff-diff-program" (It should be "diff"
but it may also be "cmp")

Is "ediff-shell"  set to use "cmdproxy.exe" ? (Hack for windows cmd shell)
What is the value of "shell-file-name" ?

Answers to these questions should narrow down exactly where the problem
lies.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bingham, Jay [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:47 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: David Starks-Browning
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Cant run ediff
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> J_)
> C_)ingham
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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)
> 
> 
>