Re: Windows 29.1 error - xargs MIA

[Joel Reicher]

JF <alpha.05@gmail.com> writes:

> I did that, and included the "bin" folder in my PATH.
> Now I get "search failed with status 0: xargs: grep: no such file or 
> directory" which my Google search suggests may have something to do with 
> having
> filenames with embedded blanks??
> John

You're still missing some things.

One of the ways I've found to get almost all the helper utils emacs needs in 
one hit is to install Git for Windows and do something like

(setenv "PATH" (concat "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\usr\\bin;" (getenv "PATH")))
(push "C:/Program Files/Git/usr/bin" exec-path)

at the start of .emacs (or site customisation files).

The main thing I miss are the man pages. The only actual util I sometimes use 
that isn't in there is a spell checker.

Cheers,

        - Joel

> On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 11:31 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>  > From: JF <alpha.05@gmail.com>
>  > Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:51:35 -0400
>  > 
>  > Using GNU Emacs 29.1 (newly installed) on Windows 10 Pro
>  > Trying dired mode for the first time and marked several files, then hit 
> "Q" for regexp query search and
>  > replace. I specify the search and replace strings, hit Enter, and it says 
> "Searching ..." and then:
>  > xref-matches-in-files: Search failed with status 1: 'xargs' is not 
> recognized as an internal or
>  > external command,
>  > from which I infer there's a path to some xargs analog that's part of the 
> install but it can't find???
>
>  You need to install GNU Findutils.  These programs don't come with
>  Windows out of the box.