From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norbert Melzer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re:emacs diff not available Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:56:35 +0100 (CET) Organization: news.individual.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414590822 25587 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2014 13:53:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:53:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Wed Oct 29 14:53:39 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTgu-0001Mn-3R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:53:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46261 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XjTgr-0004SC-N0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:53:33 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: individual.net u/xkjzW+S0YT6dh8YfA2oQolrb346iujRHt7Z9Yeo3UrKXdQUq Cancel-Lock: sha1:o2Nv7pZ8O/U4BzxRIS9oJ243tHA= X-Newsreader: PiaoHong.Usenet.Client.Free:1.61 X-Archive: encrypt Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208371 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:53:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100648 Archived-At: hugobajas Wrote in message: > Hello, > > I am new in the field of editing with emacs and need help. > > I have dowloaded cygwin and would like to use emacs as text editor. > > The first thing I wanted to do is to compare 2 files. > > To do so, I lauch emacs from the "C:\cygwin\bin" where I find > "emacs-w32.exe". > > I then open my two files. > Then, I do "tool -> compare -> two buffers" but a message appears saying "No > such file or directory, diff". > > But in "C:\cygwin\bin" there is "diff.exe". > > I do not understand what is missing? > > Could you help me please with that? > > Best regards, > > Hugo > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/emacs-diff-not-available-tp335947.html > Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > AFAIK you need to start emacs from cygwin terminal to have environment set proper. --