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From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 'diff' for WinEmacs?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 07:19:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANc-5Uy55FTV5j_=40G=JVqm7m=5qvpSELfw92LnstYxfFAMYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83poake1n9.fsf@gnu.org>

>> ... no 'diff' command...
>
> Which build of Emacs did you install, the 32-bit one or the 64-bit
> one?
>
> If the former, you can find Diffutils here:
>
>   http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
>
> If the latter, and you want a 64-bit Diff, you will need to install
> the MSYS2 port.  Start here:
>
>   http://www.msys2.org/

The splash page says "x86_64-w64-mingw32", so I imagine it's 64-bit.
Alas, I'm skeptical management will go for installing any more
developer tools, certainly not so a single, cranky software engineer
can try to work around problems with Emacs' interaction between Linux
and Windows.

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll call WinEmacs, "nice, but not
sufficient" for now, and push harder to get a Linux desktop.

S



  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-21 11:09 'diff' for WinEmacs? Skip Montanaro
2017-09-21 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-21 12:19   ` Skip Montanaro [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.881.1505992162.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-09-21 11:52 ` Anssi Saari

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