From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 71762-done@debbugs.gnu.org, Siyuan Chen <chansey97@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#71762: `(project-files (project-current))` with `project-vc-extra-root-markers` doesn't work on Windows.
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:09:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnaXS-xhEeY+PQMf7uV93sdUT9=vi=3So3316-3HqPoMA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wmmd9onm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:45:33 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> tags 71762 notabug
> thanks
>
>> From: Siyuan Chen <chansey97@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:04:48 +0800
>>
>> Anyway, setting `(setq find-program (purecopy "C:/msys64/usr/bin/find.exe"))` makes the above example work
>> at the moment.
>
> That's one possible solution. Another is to rearrange your system's
> PATH so that the directory C:\msys64\usr\bin comes _before_ the
> C:\WINDOWS\system32, where you have the stock Windows find.exe (which
> is a program for a completely different purpose and with completely
> different command-line syntax).
>
> Byw, the "msys64" part of the directory where you have find.exe seems
> to hint that it is an MSYS port, not a native Windows/MinGW port. If
> that is indeed so, my recommendation is to install a native find.exe
> and use that instead, as MSYS ports could have subtle
> incompatibilities with a native Windows Emacs.
>
>> Perhaps all NTEmacs users should set the 3 options: grep-program, find-program, xargs-program.
>
> These variables already exist, so I'm not sure what you are suggesting
> here.
>
> In general, the only "problematic" program is find.exe, because
> Windows comes only with that. The other two programs must be
> installed, and so there's no danger of Emacs invoking the wrong one.
>
> I see no Emacs bug here, just an issue of configuring your system
> and/or Emacs correctly.
I'm therefore closing this bug report.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-30 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-24 21:35 bug#71762: `(project-files (project-current))` with `project-vc-extra-root-markers` doesn't work on Windows Siyuan Chen
2024-06-25 0:04 ` Siyuan Chen
2024-06-25 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-30 6:09 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2024-06-25 13:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
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