From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired vs MC Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:02:29 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87hcvjd1fe.fsf@hans.local.net> References: <1166611830.878614.220620@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1166728111.975703.226710@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> <1166906874.855809.42590@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87lkkyow06.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> <1166962308.377039.67300@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167105001 952 80.91.229.10 (26 Dec 2006 03:50:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:50:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 26 04:50:00 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 1Gz3KB-0005QR-7J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:49:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gz3KA-0006df-PA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 22:49:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gz3Jw-0006cT-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 22:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gz3Jw-0006br-15 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 22:49:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gz3Jv-0006bl-QB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 22:49:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.179] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gz3Jv-0003bz-8L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Dec 2006 22:49:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.40.203] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKxQS-1Gz3Jr0mMZ-00036F; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:49:39 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7A2BC77509; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:02:30 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Robert Thorpe" In-Reply-To: <1166962308.377039.67300@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (Robert Thorpe's message of "24 Dec 2006 04\:11\:48 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 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:39919 Archived-At: "Robert Thorpe" writes: > Charles philip Chan wrote: >> On 23 Dec 2006, rthorpe@realworldtech.com wrote: >> ... >> >> 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. >> > > Ah. You want something like:- > M-x dired-compare-directories RET > ... select 2nd directory name... RET > (> mtime1 mtime2) RET > Thank you, this can be helpful but it is inconvenient when you would like to apply these predicates recursively to sub-directories. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany