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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with grep
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:19:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9iftbhj.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12709.1524098682.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Stanke, Fred" <fstanke@nanometrics.com> writes:

> I am not a unix guy, but I've come to depend on emacs after using it
> for decades.
>
> I have a problem, grep does not work.  How do I fix it?
>
> -*- mode: grep; default-directory: "c:/Users/fstanke/Documents/" -*-
> Grep started at Wed Apr 18 17:14:36
>
> grep  -n cycles *.txt NUL
> 'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> Grep exited abnormally with code 1 at Wed Apr 18 17:14:38

The obvious question is whether you have grep installed.  If you do, it
looks like emacs does not know about it.  There is a group you can
customise that might be worth looking at as well.

I can't be more helpful because I use emacs on Linux, so things are
rather different.

-- 
Ben.


       reply	other threads:[~2018-04-19 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.12709.1524098682.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-19 16:19 ` Ben Bacarisse [this message]
2018-04-19 17:49   ` problem with grep Emanuel Berg
2018-04-19 20:43 ` Dan Espen
2018-04-20  6:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <mailman.12761.1524206448.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-20 11:53     ` Rusi
2018-04-20 13:00       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.12772.1524229233.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-04-20 19:11         ` James K. Lowden
2018-04-20 17:51   ` Tomas Nordin
2018-04-19  0:16 Stanke, Fred
2018-04-19  6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii

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