[ANNOUNCEMENT] emacs 28.0.50-1.6bec21243d20 (TEST)
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Oct 1 17:04:34 GMT 2021
On 10/1/2021 12:51 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>> "Error: (file-missing "Searching for program" "No such file or director" "git")
>>
>> Still shows up at work, when I use "emacs -Q". I'll see if I can try
>> to figure out what's going on.
>
> I wiped out all my elisp files but still got the error. I assume this
> is what "-Q" is supposed to do.
-Q ignores your init file as well as the site-wide init file (if there is one)
as well as X resources. Wiping out your elisp files doesn't necessarily do all
that.
> Installing "git" from the Cygwin repository seems to fix this problem.
> So I suggest uninstalling "git" and see if you can figure out where
> the message is actually coming from. It doesn't appear to be coming
> from anything in my environment. I must have "git" installed at home,
> which is why I don't see the message there.
I already tried moving my git executable out of the way, and I couldn't
reproduce the problem. Do you see the message at home if you do the same?
Ken
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