Re: ediff problem

[Scott Frazer]

On 8/26/10 1:33 PM, Antoine Tollenaere wrote:
> Hello Bill,
>
> Bill<bsagert@gmail.com>  writes:
> > 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".
>
> Ediff relies on 'diff', the Unix program to compare text files. Windows
> does not install such a program, but diff comes along with all Posix
> environment for Windows including Cygwin, Microsoft SFU and
> MKS. Installing one of them will solve your problem (Cygwin is the best
> choice in my opinion). You may have to add the bin directory (for
> instance c:\cygwin\bin) to you PATH environment variable and log you off
> and on again in order for Emacs to find it.
>
> Best regards,
> Antoine.

If you just want a couple Unix utilities like 'diff' and 'find' instead of
a big Unix-y environment, you can get them here:

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/