I did that, and included the "bin" folder in my PATH.
Now I get "search failed with status 0: xargs: grep: no such file or directory" which my Google search suggests may have something to do with having filenames with embedded blanks??
John
On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 11:31 PM Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: JF <alpha.05@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:51:35 -0400
>
> Using GNU Emacs 29.1 (newly installed) on Windows 10 Pro
> Trying dired mode for the first time and marked several files, then hit "Q" for regexp query search and
> replace. I specify the search and replace strings, hit Enter, and it says "Searching ..." and then:
> xref-matches-in-files: Search failed with status 1: 'xargs' is not recognized as an internal or
> external command,
> from which I infer there's a path to some xargs analog that's part of the install but it can't find???
You need to install GNU Findutils. These programs don't come with
Windows out of the box.