Re: Does grep work in Windows

[Chris McMahan <first_initiallastname@one.dot.net>]

"Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com> writes:

> In emacs 22 on windows should grep work?
> I am typing m-x grep which opens a line in the mini buffer that says
> Run grep (like this): grep -n
> and a message saying:  Grep started at Tue Jan 23 21:19:22
> I then add, as shown in the grepmode wiki the following to the mini buffer
> -e setq ~/.emacs
> giving me a full line in the minibuffer of 
> Run grep (like this): grep -n -e setq ~/.emacs
> hit return and get a message that says
> 'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> Can anyone point out what I am doing wrong.
> Many thanks,
>
> Graham

Grep is not a native program with windows.

I installed the cygwin unix environment on my xp machine, and have
been successfully using the grep command from there for some time.

www.cygwin.com

- Chris McMahan


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