Re: Does Windows Emacs need other installs to provide Unix commands?

Personally, I find it useful to use "scoop" to keep Emacs up to date and
install other tools that may be useful, such as msys2/mingw64, as
self-contained packages that can be exposed in the path. This ensures
you can keep everything updated and independently.

Juanjo

[email protected] writes:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded GNU Emacs for Windows from here:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#nonfree
>
> Some of my favorite dired​ commands do not work. The errors mention commands that Emacs
> would find in the system if it were running on, say, Linux (eg: find, xargs, ls). For example, I
> can't mark files and search for a string (`dired-do-find-regexp`). I can't run find-name-dired​. To
> get past that, I set the variable find-program​ to point to a binary that came with Git, but then it
> fails again because there is no ls​. 
>
> Am I supposed to also install Cygwin or something like that, to provide these Unix commands
> to Emacs? It seems strange to me that there was no mention of this on the download page.
> Maybe it's just a few dired commands and I notice because I like to use them. 
>
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