From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie question re ediff Date: 14 Feb 2007 08:18:25 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1171469905.879930.189840@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171471311 364 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2007 16:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:41:51 +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 Feb 14 17:41:44 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 1HHNCK-0000Rp-Ju for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:41:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHNCK-0000IQ-2x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:41:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.208.215.221 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1171469911 1843 127.0.0.1 (14 Feb 2007 16:18:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:18:31 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=168.208.215.221; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145596 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:41202 Archived-At: On Feb 9, 3:18 pm, mkeller wrote: > Hi all, > > This comes from a emacs novice. I've searched the old posts and found > several querries related to mine, but all the answers are over my head... > thus, please answer like you're talking to a "emacs challenged" person when > replying :). > > I use emacs version 21-3 for programming in R (ESS). I'm running on Windows > XP. I would really like to use the "ediff" or "diff" functions but cannot > figure out how to do this. If I simply go to Tools -> Compare I get this: > > "No such file or directory, diff" > > After reading previous querries & responses on this forum, I installed > diffutils-2.8.7-1.exe and placed those utilities in the folder: C:\Program > Files\GnuWin32. > > Now someone on a previous response said you need to change your _emacs file > "appropriately," but I have no idea how to do that. Do I need to change the > _emacs file so that emacs knows where to find the diff program? If so, how > do I do that? If not, what do I need to do to use diff within emacs? > > Appologies for the level of this question, and thanks in advance, > I just put diff and diff3 in my emacs\bin directory so I wouldn't need to deal with how to add a new directory to whatever list it needs to be on.