From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Working rgrep in windows emacs in 2024? (GNU emacs 29.1, windows 11 Enterprise)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:08:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86il2rxevo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yqoonklv86rfmis.fsf@dod.no> (message from Steinar Bang on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:00:43 +0100)
> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:00:43 +0100
>
> But when I went in "the old way", so to speak, i.e. via "System
> properties" and "Environment variables", I got the same dialog but with
> the system variables enabled.
>
> Then I put C:\ProgramFiles\ezwinports at the start of the system
> enviroment variable "Path".
>
> When I started a fresh emacs rgrep worked just as well as it does on
> linuxen and macs.
That's exactly the way to go. The error message you show in your
previous message:
FIND: Parameter format not correct
indicates that the find.exe program which comes with Windows (a
completely different utility with a different purpose and command-line
syntax) was being called instead of GNU Find.
> Wow! That took 9 years, but I finally got there! :-)
Congrats!
> Thanks again, Eli!
You're welcome.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-14 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-13 11:20 Working rgrep in windows emacs in 2024? (GNU emacs 29.1, windows 11 Enterprise) Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 12:23 ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 12:32 ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 12:55 ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-14 7:50 ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-13 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-14 8:26 ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-14 9:00 ` Steinar Bang
2024-02-14 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-14 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-15 9:40 ` Gregor Zattler
2024-02-15 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
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