Re: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 13:30:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Yeşim Erke-Magent <yesim.ev@gmail.com>
> 
> It has been years I used Emacs so when I needed to compare 2 text files (they 
> are VBA macros, but I saved them with .txt extension.  I installed emacs 
> (version 24.3.1) and used "Compare (Ediff)" under "Tools" menu.  Then 
> selected "Two files" and I receive 
> 
> "Searching for program: permission denied, diff"
> 
> I then open the files and tried to compare 2 buffers, but it didn't make any 
> difference.

Please tell what do the following 2 commands produce in Emacs:

  M-: (executable-find "diff") RET
  M-: (executable-find "grep") RET