From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Searching for program: no such file or directory, diff Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:53:14 -0800 Message-ID: <5EB361E6C553426B89438340B1215ECE@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258556629 11251 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 15:03:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:03:49 +0000 (UTC) To: "'pp'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 16:03:16 2009 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 1NAm3u-0001Tg-87 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:03:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57148 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAm3t-0006Cg-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:03:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlwK-00015m-5O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlwE-00014c-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45434 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAlwE-00014P-5R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:18 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:31656) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAlwD-00062P-MU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id nAIEu57K011733 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:56:06 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id nAIC2xNW026055; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:56:58 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt005.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 431861271258556004; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:53:24 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.185.59) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:53:23 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcpoFfZXl7cxXIrNTcepOKaK9Rpo2wAR8n8A X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090203.4B040ACD.0198:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:69877 Archived-At: > I installed emacs under WindowsXp half a year ago, and it worked well. > However, When I use ediff command to compare two buffer, it doesnot > work and says "Searching for program: no such file or directory, diff" > Then I tried to install diff or ediff, but it seems not a right way to > fix the problem. > So, What should i do if I wanna use ediff command on WindowsXp? Perhaps `M-x customize-option ediff-diff-program'. [Note: I didn't bother to check the code, so this is a guess. I just did `C-h o ediff M-SPC -diff' in Icicles to show me all user options with substrings `ediff' and `-diff'. The help text for this option suggests it might help. `C-h o' is defined in library help-fns+.el. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HelpPlus] I use Cygwin, so the option value I use is just "diff". But you might need some other value - perhaps an absolute file name. The value should point to the `diff' program that you have on your machine. If the program is in your path, then the name can be relative.