You don't need any special Emacs setup to run
ediff, but you do need a UNIX-like version of diff; I find that the Cygwin
version of diff (and other tools) works well with Emacs. Moreover, you
need to ensure that the appropriate Cygwin bin directory is in your path.
People disagree about how best to do this; I just add them to my default Windows
path. Provided there is no Windows command with the same name then it
doesn't matter where they go within the path.
Francis
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:52
PM
Subject: [h-e-w] Ediff in Emacs
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?
Thank
you,
Silqun