From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired-do-touch Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:06:26 +0200 Message-ID: <85866067-9A83-45CE-B701-9F0E44A6C12A@web.de> References: <87tzqqgugy.fsf@gmail.com> <4135e3e50708231035pbc95223m8988de9677ec3c4c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187892418 27242 80.91.229.12 (23 Aug 2007 18:06:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: GNU Emacs List To: "Sean Sieger" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 23 20:06:56 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 1IOH52-0006H9-7r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:06:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOH50-0001FH-5u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOH4n-0001FC-PE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOH4m-0001F0-50 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:06:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOH4m-0001Ex-3H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IOH4l-0004lT-J9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:06:35 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0B69828A3F; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:06:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [62.134.226.193] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #197) id 1IOH4j-00054U-00; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:06:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4135e3e50708231035pbc95223m8988de9677ec3c4c@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18uwpyMGaP27OQDGfjbd0DhFjNhcVxxYwlnuImF TUwpIKjRCwS6VXnFm90XdzwCTGEbb1rpFUyomuxpk71WtYX6jE DKamYsRXg8oEPBzy9d/A== X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:46785 Archived-At: 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. -- Greetings Pete Math illiteracy affects 7 out of every 5 Americans.