From: "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
Subject: Re: Dired vs MC
Date: 23 Dec 2006 12:47:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1166906874.855809.42590@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2207.1166749449.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
> "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> writes:
>
> > Dieter Wilhelm wrote:
> >> "bcochofel" <bruno.cochofel@gmail.com> writes:
> >> > I really use this a lot under mc but if I can do this under emacs I'll
> >> > be very happy...
> >>
> >> Yeah, it would be perfect when dired had an option for updating files
> >> and not only overwriting stuff.
> >
> > What do you mean? Did Dired used to work differently?
>
> No, I wanted to express the subjunctive,
Ah, weakness of the english language we speakers of it don't notice
because we've never experienced a language with it.
> I'm sorry, I think I should
> have written: If dired had an option ...
>
> I would like to have an option for copying (key "C") only newer files
> then dired could replace totally midnight commander for me.
Could you describe what you mean more. Do you want Dired to mark files
created after a certain date?
This may be a weakness of Emacs we users of it don't notice because
we've never experienced a language with it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-23 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-20 10:50 Dired vs MC bcochofel
2006-12-20 13:13 ` harry meyers
2006-12-21 7:18 ` Tim X
2006-12-21 20:40 ` Will Parsons
2006-12-21 21:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2203.1166737379.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-22 8:09 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-12-22 10:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-22 9:07 ` Emacs in PDA Sébastien Vauban
2006-12-22 11:43 ` ken
2006-12-22 11:56 ` ken
2006-12-23 11:17 ` Malte Spiess
2006-12-23 12:01 ` David Kastrup
2006-12-23 12:12 ` Malte Spiess
2006-12-23 12:23 ` Charles philip Chan
2006-12-23 13:23 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-12-23 12:24 ` Charles philip Chan
2006-12-20 14:10 ` Dired vs MC Dieter Wilhelm
[not found] ` <mailman.2147.1166623877.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-21 19:08 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-22 1:03 ` Dieter Wilhelm
[not found] ` <mailman.2207.1166749449.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-23 20:47 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2006-12-24 2:42 ` Charles philip Chan
2006-12-24 12:11 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-25 23:02 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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