emacs diff not available

emacs diff not available

[hugobajas]

Hello,

I am new in the field of editing with emacs and need help.

I have dowloaded cygwin and would like to use emacs as text editor.

The first thing I wanted to do is to compare 2 files.

To do so, I lauch emacs from the "C:\cygwin\bin" where I find
"emacs-w32.exe".

I then open my two files. 
Then, I do "tool -> compare -> two buffers" but a message appears saying "No
such file or directory, diff".

But in "C:\cygwin\bin" there is "diff.exe".

I do not understand what is missing?

Could you help me please with that?

Best regards,

Hugo  



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Re: emacs diff not available

[saint]

hugobajas writes:
 > I then open my two files. 
 > Then, I do "tool -> compare -> two buffers" but a message appears saying "No
 > such file or directory, diff".
 > 
 > But in "C:\cygwin\bin" there is "diff.exe".
 > 
 > I do not understand what is missing?
 > 
 > Could you help me please with that?

I think that you need to put that directory in your path.

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Re: emacs diff not available

[hugobajas]

but where is my path?
What is it?

Sorry I am really not familiar...

Thank you,

Hugo



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Re: emacs diff not available

[hugobajas]

I found it myself. I add the variable path in my Advanced System setting.

It works.

Thank you,

Regards,

Hugo



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