From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired vs MC Date: 23 Dec 2006 12:47:54 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166906874.855809.42590@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1166611830.878614.220620@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1166728111.975703.226710@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166910170 2896 80.91.229.10 (23 Dec 2006 21:42:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 23 22:42:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GyEdh-0001l1-Mz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:42:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyEdh-0004Jp-3I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:42:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.2.207.95 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166906880 31259 127.0.0.1 (23 Dec 2006 20:48:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:48:00 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.2.207.95; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144273 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39879 Archived-At: Dieter Wilhelm wrote: > "Robert Thorpe" writes: > > > Dieter Wilhelm wrote: > >> "bcochofel" 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.