From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-9?Q?Ye=FEim_Erke=2DMagent?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375390559 24039 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2013 20:55:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 20:55:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 01 22:56:02 2013 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 1V4zuj-0006Iq-Rv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:56:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4zuj-0002E3-Cb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:56:01 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.103.68 with SMTP id j4mr5804699qao.8.1375389024646; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:30:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.126.33 with SMTP id mv1mr9454igb.1.1375389024453; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:30:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f7no491890qan.0!news-out.google.com!he10ni48qab.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no516568qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.15.2.179; posting-account=xLs80goAAAAQIthBWufwTFLZQkT3EulG Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.15.2.179 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:30:24 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200375 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:55:34 -0400 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:92643 Archived-At: It has been years I used Emacs so when I needed to compare 2 text files (they are VBA macros, but I saved them with .txt extension. I installed emacs (version 24.3.1) and used "Compare (Ediff)" under "Tools" menu. Then selected "Two files" and I receive "Searching for program: permission denied, diff" I then open the files and tried to compare 2 buffers, but it didn't make any difference. I have 64-bit Win8 on my PC and emacs' directory is under Users directory, not Program Files. Could this be a problem? BTW, I also installed GNU grep, but couldn't manage to run it through command line. I then tried using grep under Tools of emacs and it didn't work either. I wish I had Unix running on my machine! I will appreciate any suggestions.