From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mkeller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie question re ediff Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:59:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8896417.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <8893751.post@talk.nabble.com> <2defd$45cd0e3a$49edee1$29516@DIALUPUSA.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171091003 14756 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2007 07:03:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:03:23 +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 Feb 10 08:03:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFmGS-0001wJ-Aq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:03:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFmGR-0002QH-Uk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:03:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFgaD-0001IL-TJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:59:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFgaB-0001EC-KU for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFgaB-0001E3-Gw for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:59:15 -0500 Original-Received: from www.nabble.com ([72.21.53.35] helo=talk.nabble.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFgaB-0005NL-0u for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:59:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.38] (helo=jubjub.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFga9-0006dj-OS for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:59:13 -0800 In-Reply-To: <2defd$45cd0e3a$49edee1$29516@DIALUPUSA.NET> X-Nabble-From: mckellercran@gmail.com X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:03:03 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41050 Archived-At: 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 _______________________________________________ help-gnu-emacs mailing list help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-question-re-ediff-tf3202866.html#a8896417 Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.