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: 24 Dec 2006 04:11:48 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166962308.377039.67300@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1166611830.878614.220620@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1166728111.975703.226710@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> <1166906874.855809.42590@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87lkkyow06.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166964129 5032 80.91.229.10 (24 Dec 2006 12:42:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:42:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 13:42:08 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 1GySg3-0002fi-PS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:42:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GySg3-0000BH-AS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:42:07 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.0.132.106 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166962313 2973 127.0.0.1 (24 Dec 2006 12:11:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:11:53 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87lkkyow06.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> 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: i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.0.132.106; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144287 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:39889 Archived-At: 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.