From: Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid>
Subject: Re: Diff on Emacs
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:50:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bcbqob.n7.ln@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3FB07413.701@yy.zz
Jasen <xx@yy.zz> wrote on Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:30:59 -0800:
> Jesper Harder wrote:
>> Jasen <xx@yy.zz> writes:
>>>>How do I enable diff on Emacs? Doesn't diff a standard built-in
>>>>function in Emacs? Wheh I try to diff two buffers, i got "no such
>>>>file or directory" error that doesn't sound right, what did I miss
>>>>here?
>>>Sorry, forgot to tell you that I'm using Emacs 21.2.1 on Windows XP.
>> Ah, then you need to install the 'diff' program from somewhere. One
>> possibility is to get it from the Cygwin tools.
> There are many diff*.el and ediff*.el files in ../lisp/ directory so
> isn't diff a standard built-in function for emacs?
Let me clarify Jesper's post:
All these elisp files eventually call a separate executable program
"diff.exe". There is no such program included in Microsoft operating
systems (guess why we all prefer GNU/linux? :-), and that is what your
error message ("no such file...") is about.
So you're going to have to install diff.exe yourself. A good place to
download it from would be <http://www.cygwin.org/> (If I remember the
URL correctly - if not, do a Web search for "cygwin").
> Jasen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-11 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-11 4:19 Diff on Emacs Jasen
2003-11-11 4:27 ` Jasen
2003-11-11 4:37 ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-11 5:30 ` Jasen
2003-11-11 7:46 ` Joakim Hove
2003-11-11 10:04 ` Barman Brakjoller
2003-11-11 9:50 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2003-11-13 13:50 ` LEE Sau Dan
2003-11-14 16:02 ` Juri Linkov
2003-11-17 17:46 ` LEE Sau Dan
2003-11-18 9:52 ` Juri Linkov
2003-11-18 18:38 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-11 17:45 ` kgold
2003-11-12 6:09 ` Jasen
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2003-11-11 11:42 Victor Kirk
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