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Re: ediff-problem when starting emacs from another program
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: ediff-problem when starting emacs from another program |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 09:52:46 +0300 |
Arne Christian HÃ¥rseth wrote:
>
> I start up emacs from WinCVS and run ediff to compare two buffers. Emacs
> then gives the following error message:
>
> c:\Programfiler\GNU\WinCvs 1.2\diff.exe: missing operand
> c:\Programfiler\GNU\WinCvs 1.2\diff.exe: Try `c:\Programfiler\GNU\WinCvs
> 1.2\diff.exe --help' for more information.
>
> If I open the same files from a stand alone emacs it works just fine.
Does it help to rename the directory where you have WinCVS installed so that
the "WinCvs 1.2" part is changed to something without an embedded blank?
Also, what do you use for shell on that system? Any non-default settings of
shell-related variables?