From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does grep work in Windows Date: 24 Jan 2007 03:59:45 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169639985.030843.317600@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <45b67f7f$0$30318$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <2c75873c0701231427n49241f5dndb257f08f58de94@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169642437 26224 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2007 12:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:40:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 24 13:40:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H9hQW-00061y-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:40:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9hQV-0004t5-KD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:40:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169639990 5785 127.0.0.1 (24 Jan 2007 11:59:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:59:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144977 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40581 Archived-At: On Jan 24, 8:20 am, "Graham Smith" wrote: > Eli, > > Thanks for your help. > > I did restart Emacs, indeed I re-booted the PC. I modified the PATH via My > Computer|advanced|Environmental variable, and I have re-installed Grep. > > In the end I gave up and installed Emacsw32, which comes with Grep, and its > now working. > > I would rather have solved the problem but, for now this seems the more > efficient way of sorting it out. > > Should I have added anything in the .emacs file? No. The message that you saw is a message from Windows that indicates that the command you have attempted to invoke, grep, can't be found in the PATH environmental variable. The most likely explanation for the problem is that the path to grep you entered into the PATH environmental variable was subtly incorrect.