I find it easier to rename the Windows find.exe (and sort.exe), because
they're next to useless anyway :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Siu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 8:06 PM
> To: Troy Noble
> Cc: 'John L. Utz III'; (Kevin A. Burton); Ovidiu Predescu;
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: find file recursively
>
>
> Alternatively, put the following in your emacs init file if you don't feel
> like patching the originally find-dired.el. this also work for igrep.el
>
> (if (or emacs-nt xemacs-nt)
> (let ((cygwin (concat environment_home "\\cygwin\\bin")))
> (setenv "PATH" (concat cygwin ";" (getenv "PATH")))))
>
> if your setup don't have emacs-nt, xemacs-nt, or environment_home defined,
> try:
>
> (let ((cygwin "e:\\cygwin\\bin"))
> (setenv "PATH" (concat cygwin ";" (getenv "PATH"))))
>
> Troy Noble writes:
>
> Troy> Unfortunately, the find-dired.el that comes with FSF Emacs
> Troy> 20.7.1 doesn't let you set the "find" program. If you look
> Troy> in the code (or the patch below), it is hardcoded to "find . "
>
> Troy> So I made a minor modification to add a customize variable for my
> Troy> own use (this is universal diff against the list/find-dired.el
> that
> Troy> comes with FSF Emacs 20.7.1 for native Win32).
>
> Troy> You'll also want to "cp find.exe gnufind.exe" and make sure your
> Troy> cygwin/bin directory is on your PATH somewhere. And then you can
> Troy> customize-group find-dired and set the value to whatever you want
> Troy> (gnufind would be a good idea ;-).
>
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> Acrobat Engineering @ Adobe Systems Incorporated
