> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:20:13 -0500 > From: "Buchs, Kevin" <buchs.ke...@mayo.edu> > Cc: <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org> > > exec-path is a variable defined in `C source code'. > Its value is > ("c:/Windows/system32" "C:/Windows" "C:/Windows/System32/Wbem" > "C:/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/" "\"C:/Program Files/Tools/\"" > "\"C:/Program Files/Gtk2.14/bin\"" "\"C:/Apps/cygwin/bin\"" "C:/Program > Files/TortoiseSVN/bin" "c:/Program Files/emacs/bin" "c:/Program > Files/emacs/lib-src/oo-spd/i386" "c:/Program Files/emacs/lib-src/oo/i386") > > C:\Users\buchs>echo %path% > C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;"C:\Program > Files\Tools\";"C:\Program Files\Gtk2.14\bin";"C:\Apps\cygwin\bin";C:\Program > Files\TortoiseSVN\bin > > > Same thing happens with -Q > > Message is: > Computing differences between ediff7004ZkQ and master.org ... > apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, diff
And in which directory out of the listed above do you have diff.exe? In any case, those embedded quotes look suspicious, I suggest to remove them from the value of Path outside Emacs and then try again. I mean this, for example: "\"C:/Apps/cygwin/bin\"" The inner quotes should not be there. You don't need them in Path, either: Windows knows that the only delimiter there is ';', so whitespace doesn't need to be quoted.