From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diff-mode Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:07:50 -0500 Message-ID: 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 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292343045 19807 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2010 16:10:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:10:45 +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 17:10:41 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 1PSXSa-0002Gc-08 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:10:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55784 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSXSZ-0004RB-6z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:10:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50818 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSXPz-0003sV-Pb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:08:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSXPs-0002LE-RL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:07:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSXPs-0002LA-Pv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:07:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSXPq-0007rK-3A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:07:50 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Elena on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:35:14 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:77501 Archived-At: > 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. However, ediff-directories requires you to > navigate directories looking for differences. OTOH, WinMerge does > that automatically and shows you a colorized summary, from wich is > very easy to navigate from and to single files. Here is a screenshot: > http://winmerge.org/about/screenshots/foldercmp.png She said "you can do many things from there". Did you try? did you try to type `?' and read the short descriptions of the available commands? You could, for example, try "==".