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From: Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'diff' for WinEmacs?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:52:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vg3ingcl15c.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.881.1505992162.14750.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> writes:

>> I am going to take a plunge into WinEmacs, see if it behaves any
>> better [regarding cursor warpage], and see how well it works with
>> Tramp.
>
> Tramp seems to work fine. I can't use things like ediff-revision
> though, as there is no 'diff' command. Is there an alternative other
> than installing Cygwin...

I've used "unxutils" from Sourceforge, it has a bunch of Unix commands
including diff but not recently. Thing is, these are 2003 vintage and
32-bits only. Although I think they should work with 64-bit Emacs and
Windows 10.


       reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21 11:52 UTC|newest]

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

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