From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ediff does not work on Windows Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:31:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83y5oto2c5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337110334 31382 80.91.229.3 (15 May 2012 19:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 19:32:14 +0000 (UTC) To: Bastian Bechtold , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 21:32:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1SUNTc-0005wZ-5j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 21:32:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33709 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUNTb-00058J-Jm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 15:32:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUNTY-000576-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 15:32:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUNTX-0004RG-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 15:32:04 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:25204) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUNTX-0004R3-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 15:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net ([24.201.208.110]) by VL-VM-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-22.01 64bit (built Apr 21 2011)) with ESMTP id <0M420043HWXDYI80@VL-VM-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 15:32:01 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3F360AE0E5; Tue, 15 May 2012 15:31:59 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <83y5oto2c5.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 24.201.245.36 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150505 Archived-At: >> for some reason, ediff does not work for me on Windows. It just finds no >> differences. If I hit D to see the diff output, it >> displays a blank buffer. > It works for me. Sorry for asking the obvious, but do you have > diff.exe installed and on PATH? Actually, I'd expect ediff to use `exec-path' to find the `diff' executable, so please check exec-path as well. Stefan