Personally, I find it useful to use "scoop" to keep Emacs up to date and install other tools that may be useful, such as msys2/mingw64, as self-contained packages that can be exposed in the path. This ensures you can keep everything updated and independently.
Juanjo gnu.panda...@passmail.net writes: > Hi, > > I downloaded GNU Emacs for Windows from here: > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#nonfree > > Some of my favorite dired commands do not work. The errors mention commands > that Emacs > would find in the system if it were running on, say, Linux (eg: find, xargs, > ls). For example, I > can't mark files and search for a string (`dired-do-find-regexp`). I can't > run find-name-dired. To > get past that, I set the variable find-program to point to a binary that > came with Git, but then it > fails again because there is no ls. > > Am I supposed to also install Cygwin or something like that, to provide these > Unix commands > to Emacs? It seems strange to me that there was no mention of this on the > download page. > Maybe it's just a few dired commands and I notice because I like to use them. > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > -- Juan José García Ripoll http://juanjose.garciaripoll.com http://quinfog.hbar.es
