From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:47:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83li4kzlrv.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375422786 9113 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 05:53:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 05:53:06 +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 07:53:08 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 1V58IV-00055d-7h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:53:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V58IU-0006Cm-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41710) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V58IB-0006CL-RF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V58I2-0006xX-1C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:52:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:62835) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V58D6-0005El-R7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MQW00B002PT7U00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:47:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MQW00BQI2R70540@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:47:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:92658 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:30:24 -0700 (PDT) > From: Ye=C5=9Fim Erke-Magent >=20 > It has been years I used Emacs so when I needed to compare 2 text f= iles (they are VBA macros, but I saved them with .txt extension. I i= nstalled emacs (version 24.3.1) and used "Compare (Ediff)" under "Too= ls" menu. Then selected "Two files" and I receive=20 >=20 > "Searching for program: permission denied, diff" >=20 > I then open the files and tried to compare 2 buffers, but it didn't= make any difference. Please tell what do the following 2 commands produce in Emacs: M-: (executable-find "diff") RET M-: (executable-find "grep") RET