Re: [h-e-w] Ediff in Emacs

[Berndl, Klaus]

Am 29 Oct 2002, Silqun Leung schrieb:



>  
>  Hello,
>  
>      I am new to Emacs and wish to use the powerful ediff tool found in
>  Emacs.  I recently installed GNU Emacs 21.2.1(i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) and am
>  having problems with Ediff.  When I try and put (require 'ediff) into my
>  .emacs file it says it can't find the "diff" file or folder at startup. 
>  The same problem happens when I try and run from the GUI, however if I run
>  setup once it works fine.  The real concern occurs when I try and compare
>  files; it complains about ediff-setup-diff-region not being defined. 
>  Where/how/what do I define this so that I can use ediff?
>  

You need to install a suitable diff-program. For windows i recommend
installing the cygwin-suite (http://www.cygwin.com/) which installs with a
very easy-using Net-installer all Unix-tools you need for proper working with
Emacs and Windows NT/2000/XP/98/ME.


Klaus

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