From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fabian Braennstroem Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired-do-touch Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:32:42 +0000 Organization: FernUni Hagen Message-ID: References: <87tzqqgugy.fsf@gmail.com> <4135e3e50708231035pbc95223m8988de9677ec3c4c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187930438 8840 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2007 04:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 24 06:40:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IOQyJ-0006MA-JL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:40:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOQyJ-0002iy-31 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de!news.fernuni-hagen.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e4ad3d.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Original-X-Trace: tamarack.fernuni-hagen.de 1187929318 25643 217.228.173.61 (24 Aug 2007 04:21:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@fernuni-hagen.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:21:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151228 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46800 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa schrieb am 08/23/2007 06:06 PM: > Am 23.08.2007 um 19:35 schrieb Sean Sieger: > >> I expected that >> >> T filename >> >> would create a file. > > Dired works only on existing files. And directories. Although there > is an exception ... see below! > >> Is C-x C-f the only way to create a new file in dired or is there a >> one-key key-binding? > > No. You can use *shell* or such buffers to create new files, you can > copy or rename, or in dired-mode: > > ! t o u c h SPC > >> On a different note, do you use bookmarks extensively? > > No. And neither intensively. Not at all, for short. I use it a lot and it is great; first I used a small macro to jump to the directories and since yesterday evening: (define-key dired-mode-map "1" (lambda () (interactive) (bookmark-jump "bookmark name"))) which is a lot faster :-) Regards! Fabian