From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mkeller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie question re ediff Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:06:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8967911.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <8893751.post@talk.nabble.com> <8927437.post@talk.nabble.com> <45D25BA7.60205@gatech.edu> 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 1171469243 22144 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2007 16:07:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:07:23 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 14 17:07:07 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 1HHMer-0002AU-Tu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:07:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHMer-0000Wl-Gx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:07:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHMeU-0000T0-IW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:06:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HHMeU-0000Sk-3p for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:06:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHMeT-0000Sh-VN for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:06:38 -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 1HHMeT-00006i-C3 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:06:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.38] (helo=jubjub.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHMeR-0008At-Tb for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:06:35 -0800 In-Reply-To: <45D25BA7.60205@gatech.edu> X-Nabble-From: mckellercran@gmail.com X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:41198 Archived-At: Hi all, and thanks for sticking with such novice level questions. But I'm sure there are other emacs/windows challenged folks out there who can learn from my mistakes. After reading these posts, and knowing that the problem was with the PATH variable under Environment variables, I fiddled with it enough, and NOW IT WORKS! YEAH! For other newbies who are using a Windows version of Emacs (I'm using emacs 21.3) and want to utilize the diff tools, here's how you do it: 1) have emacs installed 2) find a diff utils that you want to use. I downloaded mine from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html (clikc on the link "DiffUtils") 3) install these in some folder (I did mine at C:\Program Files\GnuWin32, such that the actual programs are at C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin) 4) Now you need to let emacs know where to find the diff.exe tool. To do this in Windows XP, go to your Control Panel -> Performance & Maintenance -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables 5) Now hit "New" for "User variables". Type "PATH" in "Variable name" and type where your diff tool is under "Variable value". E.g., for me, in "Variable value" I typed "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin" 6) click all the OKs to get out. 7) diff tools should now be available in emacs. Thanks again for all your help mattflaschen wrote: > > mkeller wrote: >> Is it done under Windows' System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables? >> (Tried this too, also not working). > > Yes. Please post the current PATH variable you have, along with where > diff is installed. > > Matthew Flaschen > > > > _______________________________________________ > help-gnu-emacs mailing list > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-question-re-ediff-tf3202866.html#a8967911 Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.