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: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:00:31 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9661c159-21d5-479d-b3df-534706f9c659@o14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> References: <6174A3FCFD074EF5A396A7D095DEB814@us.oracle.com> <886669ef-277b-4056-97e0-4580e90ce614@k25g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> <79a18560-1385-439d-ad0b-ec386a352d4f@q8g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <2ac36bc2-00eb-413c-a169-06cdf495bc76@29g2000yqq.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 1292429341 22710 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 16:09:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:09:01 +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 17:08:56 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 1PStuN-00056P-KX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:08:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PStfr-0004PH-UU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:53:52 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.96.190.245 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1292425231 14186 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2010 15:00:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.96.190.245; 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:183294 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:77541 Archived-At: On Dec 15, 2:12=A0pm, Jos=E9 A. Romero L. wrote: > 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: > > =A0 =A0http://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. 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.