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Re: Comparing last modification time without dired?
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H. Dieter Wilhelm |
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Re: Comparing last modification time without dired? |
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Fri, 07 Nov 2014 09:50:48 +0100 |
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"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>
>> Hi Loris,
>>
>>> If I have two buffers and want to see which of the corresponding files
>>> is the more recent, is there a faster way of doing it than running dired
>>> for each of the corresponding directories?
>>
>> (file-newer-than-file-p (buffer-file-name buf1) (buffer-file-name buf2))
>
> Thanks for this. If I want to do this as part of an interactive
> function, how would I invoke the choice of buffers like ediff-buffers
> does?
(defun bla (buf1 buf2)
(interactive "bbuffer1\nbbuffer2")
...
)
Could already be sufficent for your needs.
Dieter
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
RE: Comparing last modification time without dired?, Drew Adams, 2014/11/07