From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_A=2E_Romero_L=2E?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diff-mode Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:12:44 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2ac36bc2-00eb-413c-a169-06cdf495bc76@29g2000yqq.googlegroups.com> References: <6174A3FCFD074EF5A396A7D095DEB814@us.oracle.com> <886669ef-277b-4056-97e0-4580e90ce614@k25g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <79a18560-1385-439d-ad0b-ec386a352d4f@q8g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292427775 14180 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 15:42:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:42:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 15 16:42:50 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PStV9-00062V-Kg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:42:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55988 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PStV2-00075V-I5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:42:40 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!29g2000yqq.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.17.133.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1292422365 3666 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2010 14:12:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:12:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 29g2000yqq.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.17.133.2; posting-account=mkEKGAoAAACAV2vhv5r9WHXWqsdL_niD User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101107 Firefox/3.6.12 (Swiftfox),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183290 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:34:28 -0500 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:77539 Archived-At: On 14 Gru, 14:40, Elena wrote: (...) > I don't doubt it. =A0However, as many things Emacs, its interface seems > foreign. =A0I couldn't find a way to compare directories and have a > summary of changed files, from which navigate to such files. =A0If (...) As Andrea already pointed out there's ediff-directories, but I've always found it terribly counter-intuitive. That was actually one of the reasons that pushed me to write the Sunrise Commander: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Commander If comparing files and directories is as important to your work as it is for mine, give it a try: 0) Install Sunrise 1) cd to the directories to compare (in left and right panes) 2) press C-M-=3D 3) press one of d, s, a, n or c to compare by Date, Size, date And size or file Contents 4) use =3D to run diff or C-=3D to run ediff on the files marked. This facility is not limited to comparing two directories in the file system, it actually compares whatever left and right panes contain at the moment it's invoked: e.g. the results of find/locate operations, contents of compressed archives, etc. Cheers, -- Jos=E9 A. Romero L. escherdragon at gmail "We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals." (Quarry worker's creed)