From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Elena Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diff-mode Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:22:40 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <74dfc105-9b4d-4b02-be8d-9e3bbf6f61d4@g26g2000vba.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 1292344840 29628 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2010 16:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 14 17:40:35 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 1PSXvW-0002ON-NB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSXvW-0003Xb-89 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g26g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.96.190.244 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1292343761 32485 127.0.0.1 (14 Dec 2010 16:22:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:22:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g26g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.96.190.244; posting-account=AFCLjAoAAABJAOf_HjgEEEi3ty-lG5m2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183261 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:77503 Archived-At: On Dec 14, 4:07=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Elena > > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:35:14 -0800 (PST) > > > > Well I'm not an expert but that seemed rather easy, > > > ediff-directories is not what you want? > > > It gives you a summary and then you can do many things from there... > > > Thank you for the tip. =A0However, ediff-directories requires you to > > navigate directories looking for differences. =A0OTOH, WinMerge does > > that automatically and shows you a colorized summary, from wich is > > very easy to navigate from and to single files. =A0Here is a screenshot= : > >http://winmerge.org/about/screenshots/foldercmp.png > > She said "you can do many things from there". =A0Did you try? did you > try to type `?' and read the short descriptions of the available > commands? =A0You could, for example, try "=3D=3D". Thank you for the tip. Of course I tried and missed "=3D=3D" because "Useful commands:" described it as "for each session, show which files are identical". Since I was looking for different files, I tried "D" instead ("show differences among directories"). However, "=3D=3D" still requires you to navigate through directories. This is grunt work and is no match for WinMerge's summary.