From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to compare time of last file modification? Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:48:07 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341172216 30930 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2012 19:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 19:50:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 01 21:50:16 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SlQ9v-0006jA-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:50:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58948 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SlQ9u-00053b-Aj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:50:14 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="ePtxJaRXJPFeIWBMlKfZaA"; logging-data="31257"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18C4tpWZwshdSZokOM/ZPDB" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GaMR8Rtg6+OlR1SVjM1JqpjkOyw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193217 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85607 Archived-At: In article , Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Is there a reason to prefer time-less-p or the custom-made solutions > over file-newer-than-file-p? file-newer-than-file-p is only applicable when you're comparing two files. If you're comparing a file's modification time to some other time, then you need to use time-less-p. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***