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RE: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8)
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Ediff error -- Permission denied (Win8) |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 16:14:27 -0700 (PDT) |
> After installing cygwin I tried Ediff, I got a new warning
> cygwin warning:
> MS-DOS style path detected: d:\Temp\Macro1.txt
> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/d/Temp/Macro1.txt
> CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
> warning.
> Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
>
> I tried to figure out what to do, but I don't know how to set up the
> environment variable.
Recent Cygwin did this nastiness to you (us). You need to do this in
your init file or similar, to tell Cygwin "Hands off!":
(setenv "CYGWIN" "nodosfilewarning")
I also added that to `setup-cygwin.el', in case you want to use that:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/download/setup-cygwin.el
(Cygwin folks apparently don't like this... See Emacs bug #14541:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14541)
HTH.