If I have marked a couple files in different directories using Dired+ is there a way to see the diff? I was looking at dired-diff and diredp-diff, but they both take the file at point. Granted that isn't a whole lot harder, but I was wondering if there is a way to mark the files first and diff them?
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Not that I know of. But be clear about what you are trying to diff. Do you want to compare each marked file in one dir with some marked file in the other dir? Or do you want to compare the directory listings and not the file contents? Not clear.
If you just want to compare directory listings, and you want to compare only the listings of the marked files, then you can do that by using command diredp-marked to show only the marked files in a Dired buffer. Do that for both Dired buffers, and then use command ediff-buffers to compare those listings.
(Command diredp-marked-other-window is bound to C-M-*.)
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I don't have an answer for diffing the contents of two sets of files. Hopefully someone else will. If you indicate the files to diff using Dired then presumably the files to be compared would have the same names in each directory. Otherwise, you will need some way to pair them off, for diffing.– DrewCommented Mar 28, 2016 at 19:54
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yes, that is exactly right, I am trying to get a handle on dired -- I imagine I could easily extend it do this when I understand it better Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 20:45