From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to run rgrep in emacs on Win32? Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:03:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87sjg668q9.fsf@dod.no> References: <83iph547tc.fsf@gnu.org> <83sjg73k5p.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334390636 14987 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2012 08:03:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:03:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 14 10:03:56 2012 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 1SIxxU-0004PK-QF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:03:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53255 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIxxT-0007Ir-VI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIxxM-0007Ik-BD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:03:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIxxI-0003b2-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rainey.bang.priv.no ([212.110.185.190]:50673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SIxxH-0003aV-SG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:03:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83sjg73k5p.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:12:34 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 84.208.231.161 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: too long (recipient list exceeded maximum allowed size of 8 bytes) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: sb@dod.no X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:51:10 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on rainey.bang.priv.no) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 212.110.185.190 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:84463 Archived-At: >>>>> Eli Zaretskii : > You will be much better off, including with other ports of GNU/Unix > software, if you just put them all on PATH. I see no good reason for > keeping them in a directory that is not on PATH. The cmd.exe on my development box have their own utilities with the same names and different argument, and I don't want to confuse other utilities in my development environment (which I don't control myself). Things might stop building because I want rgrep in Gnus. > Not every program called by Emacs has a user option that allows you to > spell out its full absolute file name. I know. I was very happy to find out that grep.el did. > (FWIW, I have a single `bin' directory into which I put _all_ the > programs and DLLs that do not come with Windows out of the box, and > that directory is very near the beginning of PATH. I have yet to see > a single use case where this arrangement failed me, be it in Emacs or > elsewhere. So this is what I recommend to others, unless there are > _very_ good reasons not to use this setup.) Yes. It's what I would do on a box completely under my control.