From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6887: 23.2.50; Initial input of dired touch command not correct Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:35:28 -0500 Message-ID: <0e39n7grvz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87pqxda26o.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298968628 31536 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2011 08:37:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 08:37:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6887@debbugs.gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 09:37:02 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuL4j-0006U2-FB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:36:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50216 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuL4j-0005rL-0w for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:36:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37539 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuL4b-0005qq-Gx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:36:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PuL4a-0005UF-Bk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:36:49 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:60673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PuL4a-0005U4-4y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:36:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuL3q-0000iD-CI; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:36:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6887 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6887-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6887.12989685382692 (code B ref 6887); Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6887) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Mar 2011 08:35:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuL3R-0000hM-VZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:35:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuL3P-0000hA-L5 for 6887@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:35:36 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59185) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PuL3J-0005OY-Cp; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:35:29 -0500 X-Spook: INSCOM SDI MD2 benelux bce CID Fedayeen Exon Shell X-Ran: ED8nY~j}=^X[T9byW,*V$rSV17D9>\Z*s"0a."FQlA[),z3#14O%wN84^ X-Hue: cyan X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87pqxda26o.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:39:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:36:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44468 Archived-At: 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. I'm having a hard time seeing what this is supposed to be useful for.