Subject: bug#23453: 25.0.93; dired-do-find-regexp does not work on Windows even after installing GNU find and grep

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 19:52:21 +0300

> From: Kaushal Modi <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 16:36:00 +0000
> Cc: [email-masked], "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
> 
>  > I have had this in my config and it works fine (for a different executable chrome.exe):
>  >
>  > (let ((chrome-path "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/"))
>  > (setq exec-path (append exec-path `(,chrome-path)))
>  > (setq browse-url-generic-program (executable-find "chrome")))
> 
>  Bad idea, as I explained in my earlier message. You need to change
>  PATH _outside_ of Emacs.
> 
> Well, as mentioned earlier, changing the exec-path and doing setenv PATH from within emacs works just
> fine.

Suit yourself, but my grey hair says this has subtle problems.  You
are welcome to wait for them to happen, of course ;-)  A lesson
learned from your own experience is much more vivid that if you learn
from that of others.