From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dbbd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:44:34 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <1426247074642-352050.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <7bbe1024-cb56-4713-b863-e3b732112915@googlegroups.com> <83wqo3xlqj.fsf@gnu.org> <1425897576781-351770.post@n5.nabble.com> <83k2yq5duk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1426247110 9508 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2015 11:45:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:45:10 +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 Mar 13 12:45:00 2015 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 1YWO1T-0003MO-Is for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:45:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36399 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWO1N-0008WH-NI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWO1C-0008WA-8K for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:44:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWO18-0003Oy-1P for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mwork.nabble.com ([162.253.133.43]:49378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YWO17-0003Oj-Rt for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 07:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from msam.nabble.com (unknown [162.253.133.85]) by mwork.nabble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BBF1725939 for ; Fri, 13 Mar 2015 04:44:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83k2yq5duk.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: iOS iPhone or iPad X-Received-From: 162.253.133.43 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:103141 Archived-At: Thanks for the reply, Eli. I tried to diff files in several directories, and I got always the same permission denied error. I have c:\cygwin\bin in my PATH, and win7's Search finds diff.exe in c:\cygwin\bin Also, if I eval-expression (getenv "PATH") in emacs, it does contain "C:\\cygwin\\bin". How do I get the value of exec-path? I thought PATH was copied into it anyhow. If I eval-expression (getenv "exec-path") it returns nil, but presumably this is not the right way of getting the value of exec-path? The diff that works is the cygwin diff. I evoke it directly from cmd.exe, not in the cygwin bash shell. -- View this message in context: http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/Ediff-error-Permission-denied-Win8-tp293844p352050.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.