Re: Dired vs MC

[Robert Thorpe]

Charles philip Chan wrote:
> On 23 Dec 2006, rthorpe@realworldtech.com wrote:
>
> >> I would like to have an option for copying (key "C") only newer files
> >> then dired could replace totally midnight commander for me.
> >
> > Could you describe what you mean more.  Do you want Dired to mark
> > files created after a certain date?
>
> 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.
>
> Charles

Ah.  You want something like:-
M-x dired-compare-directories RET
... select 2nd directory name... RET
(> mtime1 mtime2) RET

You could bind it to a key in some way.