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From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comparing last modification time without dired?
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 09:25:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioir76zj.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.13098.1415347725.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Hi Michael,

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>
> Hi Loris,
>
>> If I have two buffers and want to see which of the corresponding files
>> is the more recent, is there a faster way of doing it than running dired
>> for each of the corresponding directories?
>
> (file-newer-than-file-p (buffer-file-name buf1) (buffer-file-name buf2))

Thanks for this.  If I want to do this as part of an interactive
function, how would I invoke the choice of buffers like ediff-buffers
does?

>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris
>
> Best regards, Michael.
>
Cheers,

Loris

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-07  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-07  7:29 Comparing last modification time without dired? Loris Bennett
2014-11-07  8:08 ` Michael Albinus
     [not found] ` <mailman.13098.1415347725.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-07  8:25   ` Loris Bennett [this message]
2014-11-07  8:50     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-07  9:05     ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]     ` <mailman.13102.1415351159.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-07 10:24       ` Loris Bennett
2014-11-07 11:58         ` Michael Albinus
2014-11-07 12:04         ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-11-07 14:38 ` Drew Adams

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