Re: diff-mode

[Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com>]

On Dec 15, 2:12 pm, José A. Romero L. <escherdra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 Gru, 14:40, Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (...)> I don't doubt it.  However, as many things Emacs, its interface seems
> > foreign.  I couldn't find a way to compare directories and have a
> > summary of changed files, from which navigate to such files.  If
>
> (...)
>
> 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-=
> 3) press one of d, s, a, n or c to compare by Date, Size, date And
> size or file Contents
> 4) use = to run diff or C-= 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.

What a nifty package!  Very intuitive (at least from my background).
Congratulations.  I will be checking it out.

I've tried the procedure you've suggested, but it doesn't run a
recursive comparison, which is what I'm after.  Thank you anyway.