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Re: [h-e-w] Trying to use Ediff with Windows 7


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Trying to use Ediff with Windows 7
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:03:55 +0200

> From: Francis Wright <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:26:22 +0000
> 
> It's to be expected. Emacs assumes a Unix-like environment, which Windows 
> doesn't provide, so you need to provide any programs that you want to run via 
> Emacs yourself. I currently use the 64-bit Cygwin distribution. I found that 
> I needed to add the Cygwin bin directory to my Windows path (outside of 
> Emacs) and then ediff works fine.

A native Windows port of Diffutils (including diff.exe) is available
here:

  http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm



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