From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mkeller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Newbie question re ediff Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:18:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8893751.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171057572 3564 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2007 21:46:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 21:46:12 +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 Feb 09 22:46:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFdZK-0001lc-3B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:46:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFdZJ-0004y2-JN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFd8e-00020a-6W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFd8d-00020M-Gt for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFd8d-00020H-Af for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from www.nabble.com ([72.21.53.35] helo=talk.nabble.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFd8d-0002JG-0G for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.38] (helo=jubjub.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFd8b-0005K3-6z for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:18:33 -0800 X-Nabble-From: mckellercran@gmail.com X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:45:57 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41043 Archived-At: Hi all, This comes from a emacs novice. I've searched the old posts and found several querries related to mine, but all the answers are over my head... thus, please answer like you're talking to a "emacs challenged" person when replying :). I use emacs version 21-3 for programming in R (ESS). I'm running on Windows XP. I would really like to use the "ediff" or "diff" functions but cannot figure out how to do this. If I simply go to Tools -> Compare I get this: "No such file or directory, diff" After reading previous querries & responses on this forum, I installed diffutils-2.8.7-1.exe and placed those utilities in the folder: C:\Program Files\GnuWin32. Now someone on a previous response said you need to change your _emacs file "appropriately," but I have no idea how to do that. Do I need to change the _emacs file so that emacs knows where to find the diff program? If so, how do I do that? If not, what do I need to do to use diff within emacs? Appologies for the level of this question, and thanks in advance, Matt -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-question-re-ediff-tf3202866.html#a8893751 Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.