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* dired touch command initial input
@ 2010-08-17 13:04 Thierry Volpiatto
  2010-08-17 16:37 ` Andreas Schwab
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thierry Volpiatto @ 2010-08-17 13:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Hi all,
actually the dired touch command "T" use the more recent timestamp of
the marked files for initial value.

I wonder why it does not take the current-time as initial input like the
touch command does and like it is described in manual:

,----
| `T TIMESTAMP <RET>'
|      Touch the specified files (`dired-do-touch').  This means updating
|      their modification times to the present time.  This is like the
|      shell command `touch'.
`----

So why not using this simple version of `dired-touch-initial' instead:

,----
| (defun dired-touch-initial (files)
|   "Create initial input value for `touch' command."
|   (format-time-string "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S" (current-time)))
`----

It is annoying to modify the prompt manually to insert current time.

But maybe there is a special reason to use the more recent timestamp or
the current timestamp if only one file?

In this case that should be specified in the manual (different behavior
than usual shell command).

Otherwise, i will submit a bug.

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* Re: dired touch command initial input
  2010-08-17 13:04 dired touch command initial input Thierry Volpiatto
@ 2010-08-17 16:37 ` Andreas Schwab
  2010-08-18  7:11   ` Thierry Volpiatto
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Schwab @ 2010-08-17 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thierry Volpiatto; +Cc: emacs-devel

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

> It is annoying to modify the prompt manually to insert current time.

That could be fixed by putting the current time on the history.

Andreas.

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* Re: dired touch command initial input
  2010-08-17 16:37 ` Andreas Schwab
@ 2010-08-18  7:11   ` Thierry Volpiatto
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thierry Volpiatto @ 2010-08-18  7:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It is annoying to modify the prompt manually to insert current time.
>
> That could be fixed by putting the current time on the history.

I don't see how to do that.

Anyway the default should be current time like the shell command touch
does and like the Emacs manual describe unless there is a good reason to
do that.

-- 
Thierry Volpiatto
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