On Friday, July 28, 2017 at 4:28:23 PM UTC-4, Charles Campbell wrote: > Hugo Gagnon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > When I pick two files in Explorer and then right click -> "Diff with Vim" I > > get the E97 error. I did read the E97 help file and checked if I had > > diff.exe installed but I couldn't find anything odd. > > By "Explorer", are you referring to netrw? If not, ignore the rest of > this note, please. > > Netrw does not provide a "Diff with Vim". It does allow you to select > files (shift-leftmouse -or- mf), then select [Netrw:Marked Files:Diff] > This process uses vim's diffthis on the marked files. > The self-installing version of vim under Windows includes a diff program > with it; vim doesn't do diff on its own. > If you have a diff.exe (from which I'm inferring that you're using > Windows) make sure that its on your Windows path. My windows speak is > rusty; that may be %PATH% ? Someone please correct me on that. > > Regards, > Chip Campbell
Since C:\WINDOWS is already in my path I copied diff.exe into it and it now works. I know, using C:\WINDOWS is probably a bad idea. In any case thanks for the input. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
