From: mkeller <mckellercran@gmail.com>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie question re ediff
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:59:13 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8896417.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2defd$45cd0e3a$49edee1$29516@DIALUPUSA.NET>
Hi Ed and all,
*Thank you* for your help. However, this hasn't solved my problem. When I go
through the menu and choose Tools -> Compare (Ediff) the minibuffer says
"loading ediff..." and then "Searching for program: no such file or
directory, diff". I'm sure this is not that tough, but after spending a few
hours on google today trying to figure it out, I hoped that maybe this forum
would yiedl better results. Thanks,
Matt
It looks to me like you are typing in "diff" as a file or buffer name. In
my w32 build (21.3 on msw98) the menu shows Tools > Compare(Ediff) > Two
files, two buffers, etc in a drop down list. In two buffers, if I accept
the default, it compares *scratch* with itself and generates 2 buffers, A
and B, in an Ediff frame, showing no differences. I don't think you needed
diffutils. I don't find anything named that under my emacs subdirectory,
only under cygwin, which I don't use to run emacs. Ediff is like dired and
probably many other parts of emacs: the code for it is loaded when you
invoke the command.
The .emacs (or _emacs) will be found in your HOME directory. If you don't
have one then add
set HOME ..\emacs (or wherever; it doesn't have to be with /bin, /lisp,
and the rest of the emacs files so it could be anywhere in a non networked
machine, even the root directory (the default in w32 if you don't set it
up somewhere else). Just C-xC-f .emacs, write something in it like:
(+ 1 1) and then write to wherever your home directory is with C-xC-w.
Emacs will suggest ~/ if it thinks it knows where your home directory is.
To put something more useful into .emacs, save a few Custom settings for
future sessions (under Options > Customize Emacs > Specific Option >
Customize variable > [Tab]).
Ed
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[not found] <mailman.4256.1171057558.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-10 0:13 ` Newbie question re ediff B. T. Raven
2007-02-10 0:59 ` mkeller [this message]
2007-02-10 13:06 ` Wilmar Igl
2007-02-14 16:18 ` rgb
2007-02-09 21:18 mkeller
2007-02-10 8:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-02-12 16:26 ` mkeller
2007-02-14 0:45 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-02-14 16:06 ` mkeller
2007-02-14 19:20 ` Matthew Flaschen
2007-02-15 0:42 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.4460.1171413959.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-14 3:50 ` Hadron
2007-02-14 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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