Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 21.1/Win2K/grep&find

[Graham Murray]

Chris Lott <address@hidden> writes:

> What are the tricks for enabling grep and find with Emacs 21.1 and
> Win2k? Do I have to use Cygwin as my shell for these to work? I've been 
> avoiding
> that, though I have Cygwin installed, because it seems to make so many
> other things stop working on my system (AucTeX, my printing routines,
> scripts to put all my backups in one place)... but I really need
> grep/find for some current work.

You don't need to cygwin as your shell, find and grep will work if you
put your cygwin/bin directory on the path (preferably before the
Windows directories otherwise you will run the 'native' find)