From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: ediff problem Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291868647 7434 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:24:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:24:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 05:24:04 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQY30-0000cG-Cb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:24:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQY2z-000885-JM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:24:01 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g6g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.20.93.43 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1282841614 9792 127.0.0.1 (26 Aug 2010 16:53:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g6g2000pro.googlegroups.com; posting-host=154.20.93.43; posting-account=Z9UzlgoAAABhlxMxpOnwLP3k1rhUxBfV User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100701 Firefox/3.5.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180970 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:76637 Archived-At: I use emacs 23.1 on a windows xp box. No matter what ediff method I use (M-x ediff-buffers or the menu bar "Tools | Compare" etc) to compare buffers (or files) I get the message "Searching for program: no such file or directory, diff". However in my ~/emacs-23.1/lisp/ directory there is a file called diff.el along with diff-mode.el There is also ediff.el and 10 variants such as ediff-hook.el The emacs ediff manual says the required files are loaded upon need but a (require 'diff) and (require 'ediff) in ~/.emacs can be used. That made no difference for me. Thanks in advance for any help. Bill