Emacs 23 and git-emacs

Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Markus Heller]

Hello,

I'm on Windoze XP using GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 
2009-06-30 on LENNART-69DE564 and git-emacs-1.1.

However, M-x git-config-init gives the following message in the buffer:

apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, git-config

Here's the entire *Messages* buffer:

Loading c:/Program 
Files/emacs-23.1/org-6.30e/contrib/lisp/org-checklist.el (source)...done
Loading paren...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Making completion list...
apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, git-config
Mark set

What's wrong?  I do have the following lines in my .emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Program Files/emacs-23.1/git-emacs-1.1")
(require 'git-emacs)

Thanks and Cheers
Markus

Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Yaomin]

On Sep 9, 5:53 pm, Markus Heller <helle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm on Windoze XP using GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of
> 2009-06-30 on LENNART-69DE564 and git-emacs-1.1.
>
> However, M-x git-config-init gives the following message in the buffer:
>
> apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, git-config
>
> Here's the entire *Messages* buffer:
>
> Loading c:/Program
> Files/emacs-23.1/org-6.30e/contrib/lisp/org-checklist.el (source)...done
> Loading paren...done
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> Making completion list...
> apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, git-config
> Mark set
>
> What's wrong?  I do have the following lines in my .emacs:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "C:/Program Files/emacs-23.1/git-emacs-1.1")
> (require 'git-emacs)
>
> Thanks and Cheers
> Markus

get it as

git clone git://github.com/tsgates/git-emacs.git

This solved my problem.

Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.09.2009 um 23:53 schrieb Markus Heller:

> What's wrong?


You need the GIT suite of programmes too! The Elisp files just allow  
GNU Emacs to use this suite inside.

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If  
it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong.

Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Markus Heller]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 09.09.2009 um 23:53 schrieb Markus Heller:
> 
>> What's wrong?
> 
> 
> You need the GIT suite of programmes too! The Elisp files just allow GNU 
> Emacs to use this suite inside.

Err, thanks for the reply, Pete!

I have git installed of course, it's in C:\Program Files\git.  I've 
tried adding C:\Program Files\git\bin to my PATH, but to no avail. 
Basically, I just followed the instructions given here [1].

I guess I need to let emacs know where to find the git binaries ...  But 
how? (add-to-list 'load-path) maybe?  But that refers to lisp files?

Thanks for your help!
Markus

[1] http://tsgates.cafe24.com/git/git-emacs.html#sec1

Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.09.2009 um 18:39 schrieb Markus Heller:

> I guess I need to let emacs know where to find the git  
> binaries ...  But how? (add-to-list 'load-path) maybe?


On UNIX it's:

	(setenv "PATH" (concat "/some/directory" ":" (getenv "PATH")))

GNU Emacs also has the variable exec-path. And you can simply  
customise it! So I think this one is the means to make GNU Emacs find  
your GIT programmes.

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and  
I'm not sure about the former.
				– Albert Einstein

Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:12:04 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> 
> On UNIX it's:
> 
> 	(setenv "PATH" (concat "/some/directory" ":" (getenv "PATH")))

Use path-separator instead of a literal ":" for better portability.

Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Markus Heller]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 10.09.2009 um 18:39 schrieb Markus Heller:
> 
>> I guess I need to let emacs know where to find the git binaries ...  
>> But how? (add-to-list 'load-path) maybe?
> 
> 
> On UNIX it's:
> 
>     (setenv "PATH" (concat "/some/directory" ":" (getenv "PATH")))
> 
> GNU Emacs also has the variable exec-path. And you can simply customise 
> it! So I think this one is the means to make GNU Emacs find your GIT 
> programmes.
> 

Pete,

thanks again.  I tried M-x customize-variable <Ret> and added the path 
to the git binaries to exec-path.  After restarting emacs, I still get 
the same error message.

I think I'll have to do some more googling ...

M

Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.09.2009 um 19:30 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:

> Use path-separator instead of a literal ":" for better portability.

Yes, you're right! Next time I'll mention

	(setenv "PATH" (concat "/some/directory" path-separator (getenv  
"PATH")))

(I'm glad that / means / everywhere!)

--
Greetings

   Pete

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.  
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
				- Jeremy S. Anderson

Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:25:00 -0700
> 
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > 
> > Am 10.09.2009 um 18:39 schrieb Markus Heller:
> > 
> >> I guess I need to let emacs know where to find the git binaries ...  
> >> But how? (add-to-list 'load-path) maybe?
> > 
> > 
> > On UNIX it's:
> > 
> >     (setenv "PATH" (concat "/some/directory" ":" (getenv "PATH")))
> > 
> > GNU Emacs also has the variable exec-path. And you can simply customise 
> > it! So I think this one is the means to make GNU Emacs find your GIT 
> > programmes.
> > 
> 
> Pete,
> 
> thanks again.  I tried M-x customize-variable <Ret> and added the path 
> to the git binaries to exec-path.  After restarting emacs, I still get 
> the same error message.

Did you modify _both_ the value of exec-path _and_ the value of PATH
as suggested above?  To make all Emacs commands work correctly, you
need both, especially if some of programs invoked as subordinate
processes are shell scripts or invoked through the shell.

Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:32:40 +0200
> 
> (I'm glad that / means / everywhere!)

That's why we obsoleted directory-sep-char and made its value
constant.