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rgrep is broken on woe32

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Message #52 received at 7785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
Cc: ofv <at> wanadoo.es, 7785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7785: rgrep is broken on woe32
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:32:31 -0500

> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:45:42 -0500
> From: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: ofv <at> wanadoo.es, 7785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> this works just fine, like on linux:
> PATH=/cygdrive/c/gnu/gnuwin32/bin:$PATH emacs -q
> 
> moreover,
> emacs -q
> and moving gnuwin dir to the beginning of exec-path with
> (let ((gw "c:/gnu/gnuwin32/bin"))
>   (setq exec-path (cons gw (delete gw exec-path))))
> also works fine.
> 
> however, without "-q" I get various errors, mostly
> "FIND: Parameter format not correct"
> despite exec-paths starting with gnuwin32.
> this is obviously my problem now; however, I would appreciate it if
> you could help me out.

If this is still relevant (i.e. you still don't know which of your
customizations break what works with "emacs -q"), then can you bisect
your .emacs to see the reason? or post here the whole file?

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