Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 21.1/Win2K/grep&find

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> 
> Chris Lott <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > What are the tricks for enabling grep and find with Emacs 21.1 and
> > Win2k? Do I have to use Cygwin as my shell for these to work?
> 
> No, you don't need Cygwin as your shell.  You do need Windows (or
> Cygwin) versions of grep and find on your PATH.  Make sure that the
> port of Unix-style find is on your PATH before the Windows find
> command in c:\windows\command or c:\winnt\system32.
> 
> --
> Jason Rumney

Expanding briefly on what Jason wrote above, it is entirely possible to
use Cygwin programs without running a Cygwin shell, provided the path is
set appropriately.  I often run Cygwin programs in an MS-DOS window
(outside Emacs) and I run Cygwin diff, grep etc. from Emacs, although my
*shell*, *texshell* etc. buffers all run the default MS-DOS command
interpreter.

Francis