From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-9?Q?Ye=FEim_Erke=2DMagent?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 13:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7bbe1024-cb56-4713-b863-e3b732112915@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375474873 12783 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 20:21:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 20:21:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 22:21:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V5Lqb-0003LH-1C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:21:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V5Lqa-0001zW-Jg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:21:12 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.163.14 with SMTP id y14mr11510518qax.3.1375474771633; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:19:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.13.10 with SMTP id d10mr94036qec.28.1375474771579; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 13:19:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f7no547003qan.0!news-out.google.com!a13ni157qay.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no579883qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.15.2.179; posting-account=xLs80goAAAAQIthBWufwTFLZQkT3EulG Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.15.2.179 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 20:19:31 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200412 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92679 Archived-At: Hi Eli, You may have seen from my above posting that I haven't used Emacs for a loooong while, but here is the info you wanted > > M-: (executable-find "diff") RET --> d:/cgywin64/bin/diff.exe > > M-: (executable-find "grep") RET --> d:/cgywin64/bin/grep.exe > I added d:/cgywin64/bin in the environment variable "Path" Does this help? Thanks, Yesim