From: Evgeniy Dolzhenko <evgeniy.dolzhenko@blacksquaremedia.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to run rgrep in emacs on Win32?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:37:10 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa2hxpdl.fsf@blacksquaremedia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iph547tc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:29:19 +0300")
Here is what works for me on Win7
;; Cygwin for find/grep
(setenv "PATH" (concat "C:\\cygwin\\bin;" (getenv "PATH")))
in .emacs
1. GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)
2. CygWin in C:\cygwin some pretty outdated version
It's dog slow though :(
HTH,
Ev
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
>> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:21:41 +0200
>>
>> Platform: emacs 23.2.1,
>> GnuWin32 FindUtils 4.2.20-2
>> GnuWin32 Grep-2.5.4
>
> What version of Windows is that?
>
>> Does anyone know of a way to make the emacs rgrep command work on
>> windows?
>
> First, try Emacs 23.3 or later, there were some changes made there to
> fix problems with very long command lines, perhaps you are hitting
> that limit. If that doesn't help, maybe advice below will.
>
> "M-x rgrep" works for me on Windows XP, but I use Fiindutils that I
> built myself, as the GnuWin32 provided port is broken (in particular,
> xargs is affected). You can find my port here:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
>
> However, lately someone told me that my build doesn't work well on
> Windows Vista and later, because Microsoft changed the way quoted
> wildcards are processed by the startup code that globs them: now
> wildcards are globbed even if they are quoted. If you are using such
> a new version of Windows, the only solution I know of is to downgrade
> to an even older version 4.1 of Findutils from here:
>
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
>
> I think someone told me that this port does work on newer Windows
> versions.
>
> HTH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-12 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-12 9:21 Is it possible to run rgrep in emacs on Win32? Steinar Bang
2012-04-12 8:39 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-04-12 9:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-12 9:37 ` Evgeniy Dolzhenko [this message]
2012-04-12 10:06 ` Stefan Vollmar
2012-04-12 10:07 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-04-12 15:26 ` Steinar Bang
2012-04-12 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-13 11:34 ` Steinar Bang
2012-04-13 12:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-13 13:02 ` Evgeniy Dolzhenko
2012-04-13 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-14 15:14 ` Stefan Vollmar
2012-04-14 8:03 ` Steinar Bang
2012-04-14 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-16 13:26 ` Ludwig, Mark
[not found] <mailman.1131.1334218896.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-17 5:47 ` winterTTr
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