From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Babcock Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff on Win32 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:31:29 -0800 Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170999652 32171 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2007 05:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 05:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 09 06:40:49 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 1HFOV7-0004Rg-9I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:40:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFOV6-0000jm-MD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:40:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7yQUZ7CaYQxA!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: 11a9745cc0731e6c0de5314042 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145394 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:40999 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote in news:mailman.4166.1170922499.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org: > Stick with -q for now, just to simplify debugging the problem. > > How do you load ediff? Try using --debug-init as well as -q, > or `M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET' after you've > started emacs, and post the resulting *Backtrace* buffer. Thanks for your suggestions. Emacs starts cmdproxy.exe when ediff is started. If I use task manager to kill the process tree for cmdproxy (killing just the process isn't enough), emacs 21 comes back to life (emacs 22 does not). Then in the backtrace buffer, I see (file-error "Searching for program" "no such file or directory" "diff3") I didn't have diff3.exe in my emacs install directory (or anywhere else). I tried diff3.exe from two sources: http://www.tasoft.com/patches.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/ but neither works. Only change is that if I run ediff-documentation and kill the process tree, I actually get the documentation instead of an error message (in emacs 21.3.1). So I'm not sure if I just need a compatible diff3.exe or if something else is wrong. When I shutdown for the night after my earlier posting, I had a dozen messages about cmdproxy not responding. That was a not-very-subtle clue.