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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Working rgrep in windows emacs in 2024? (GNU emacs 29.1, windows 11 Enterprise)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:08:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86il2rxevo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yqoonklv86rfmis.fsf@dod.no> (message from Steinar Bang on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:00:43 +0100)

> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:00:43 +0100
> 
> But when I went in "the old way", so to speak, i.e. via "System
> properties" and "Environment variables", I got the same dialog but with
> the system variables enabled.
> 
> Then I put C:\ProgramFiles\ezwinports at the start of the system
> enviroment variable "Path".
> 
> When I started a fresh emacs rgrep worked just as well as it does on
> linuxen and macs.

That's exactly the way to go.  The error message you show in your
previous message:

    FIND: Parameter format not correct

indicates that the find.exe program which comes with Windows (a
completely different utility with a different purpose and command-line
syntax) was being called instead of GNU Find.

> Wow! That took 9 years, but I finally got there! :-)

Congrats!

> Thanks again, Eli!

You're welcome.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-14 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-13 11:20 Working rgrep in windows emacs in 2024? (GNU emacs 29.1, windows 11 Enterprise) Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 12:23 ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 12:32 ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 12:55   ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 13:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-14  7:50       ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-14  8:26   ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-14  9:00     ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-14 15:08       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-14 15:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-15  9:40   ` Gregor Zattler
2024-02-15 10:22     ` Eli Zaretskii

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