From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dired vs MC
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:02:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcvjd1fe.fsf@hans.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1166962308.377039.67300@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (Robert Thorpe's message of "24 Dec 2006 04\:11\:48 -0800")
"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> writes:
> Charles philip Chan wrote:
>> On 23 Dec 2006, rthorpe@realworldtech.com wrote:
>>
...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Ah. You want something like:-
> M-x dired-compare-directories RET
> ... select 2nd directory name... RET
> (> mtime1 mtime2) RET
>
Thank you, this can be helpful but it is inconvenient when you would
like to apply these predicates recursively to sub-directories.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-25 23:02 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
2006-12-25 23:02 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
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