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From: "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
Subject: Re: Dired vs MC
Date: 24 Dec 2006 04:11:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1166962308.377039.67300@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lkkyow06.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem>

Charles philip Chan wrote:
> On 23 Dec 2006, rthorpe@realworldtech.com wrote:
>
> >> 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?
>
> What he meant is that if the file exist in the destination directory,
> only replace the file if the file in the source directory is newer.
>
> Charles

Ah.  You want something like:-
M-x dired-compare-directories RET
... select 2nd directory name... RET
(> mtime1 mtime2) RET

You could bind it to a key in some way.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-24 12:11 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
2006-12-24  2:42         ` Charles philip Chan
2006-12-24 12:11           ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2006-12-25 23:02             ` Dieter Wilhelm

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