From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Message-ID: <86il2rxevo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86v86spk7b.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39417"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 14 16:08:59 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1raGsd-0009yQ-7l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:08:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1raGsD-0003zI-G4; Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1raGsC-0003yj-12 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:08:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1raGsB-0006P2-Om for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:08:31 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Puhr6240IVmpZofrUi4ToalNJpYuj6kOBB64NP1ER9k=; b=C50AOB9Zd1hH ZFGrZsn2qsm3yRpBc+zaIZUX2vWgXlYQhZlVhqdK02WO0G7EWc+2W6YiRfbI43JDBSkFuDzt+6K2K fcVmHD/DHjYIWRAHe65IDKtS924qkuUNNlS+NeJVA6A3AEUcBj3x14CJRIErZvMdSJotHKvzkdgKK /qT17WUDA95Zd1G7BswaAc53bzpLPdTib0QQ8qx7NRVOOCgXd+5YgmXbCgc98t9tx/eUrOguSKDxn 7kQ8qDxjQCk9UeMWP+IM7Ko5XmI2giIHkr4q+RQmgsfv/c+jUzORXMCleeObVVvPHd2n7yhrZKjVR ayD931De4XM4OhvCse5kMQ==; In-Reply-To: (message from Steinar Bang on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:00:43 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145942 Archived-At: > From: Steinar Bang > 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.