RE: [h-e-w] Cant run ediff

[Eli Daniel]

> Suggestions:
>         1) Have the desktop shortcut do something like this:
>                 /path-to../bash -c /path-to../runemacs.exe
>         Benefits:  Uses *both* the WinDOS shortcut paradigm and the
>               /etc/profile and ~/.profile paradigms
>
>         2) Call runemacs.exe or emacs.exe from a cygwin bash window
>
>         3) [[boo, hiss]] -- Use elisp to augment the PATH environment
>            variable with /cygdrive/c/usr/bin or c:/cygwin/usr/bin.  It
>            works, but doesn't play well.  Requires double editing any
>            time any profile is changed.  Once for cygwin.  Once for
>            emacs.


I think you missed the simplest approach of all, which is just to put
c:/cygwin/bin (or whatever the windowsy name for cygwin's bin directory on
your machine is) into your regular Windows path.  Then you can run all your
favorite cygwin tools from a regular command prompt, from within emacs, or
from within a cygwin bash shell.

-Eli