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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: ediff-problem when starting emacs from another program
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:52:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CAAA6BE.918F336F@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: HNEFICBFKJJLFMNCAJPDKEENCAAA.arne.haarseth@nextra.com

Arne Christian Hårseth wrote:
> 
> I start up emacs from WinCVS and run ediff to compare two buffers. Emacs
> then gives the following error message:
> 
> c:\Programfiler\GNU\WinCvs 1.2\diff.exe: missing operand
> c:\Programfiler\GNU\WinCvs 1.2\diff.exe: Try `c:\Programfiler\GNU\WinCvs
> 1.2\diff.exe --help' for more information.
> 
> If I open the same files from a stand alone emacs it works just fine.

Does it help to rename the directory where you have WinCVS installed so that
the "WinCvs 1.2" part is changed to something without an embedded blank?

Also, what do you use for shell on that system?  Any non-default settings of
shell-related variables?

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-03  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-03  0:00 ediff-problem when starting emacs from another program Arne Christian Hårseth
2002-04-03  6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-04  2:20 Michael Kifer

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