From: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comparing last modification time without dired?
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 09:50:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhnnv1g7.fsf@vsl28t2g.ww011> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ioir76zj.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de
"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
> 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?
(defun bla (buf1 buf2)
(interactive "bbuffer1\nbbuffer2")
...
)
Could already be sufficent for your needs.
Dieter
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-07 8:50 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
2014-11-07 8:50 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
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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