From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 6887@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6887: 23.2.50; Initial input of dired touch command not correct
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:34:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vwz86ya.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e39n7grvz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:35:28 -0500")
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Thierry Volpiatto wrote:
>
>> i have already posted on emacs-dev, and i had no answer, so i assume
>> there is no good reason to use the more recent file of the marked files
>> as reference timestamp for all the marked files.
>
> I don't see the behaviour that you describe, but I am confused by what
> the point of dired-touch-initial is supposed to be (cc: to original
> author).
>
> If there is one file, it always returns the current timestamp of that
> file.
>
> If there are multiple files, if they all happen to have the same
> timestamp, it will return that time.
> If any one of them has a different time-stamp, it returns the current
> time.
This is correct.
> I'm having a hard time seeing what this is supposed to be useful for.
When i posted this, IIRC the behavior was different, with multiple files
selected, the earlier one was choosen for timestamp.(nearly one year
ago).
--
A+ Thierry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-20 12:39 bug#6887: 23.2.50; Initial input of dired touch command not correct Thierry Volpiatto
2011-03-01 8:35 ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-01 10:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2011-03-03 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2011-03-04 2:54 ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-04 6:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-05-21 2:09 ` Glenn Morris
2011-07-30 9:14 ` Juri Linkov
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