From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-do-touch Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:27:55 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <878yhjv4hx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <8765czqqyj.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <8765ctkmdo.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87k7165zee.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <9681-Sat27Mar2004141724+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <87vfkq1lss.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87ekre6zft.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <87oeqitbga.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87isgo4ub2.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080588951 31446 80.91.224.253 (29 Mar 2004 19:35:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 29 21:35:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B82Xw-0000Hd-00 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:35:44 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B82Xv-0005PZ-00 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:35:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B82WY-0007mH-7t for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:34:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B82Vw-0007kE-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:33:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B82UA-00071B-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:32:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.6] (helo=knife.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B82Ta-0006iz-B2; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:31:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-38-198-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.38.198]) by knife.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4F3E4021; Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:31:08 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Matthew Mundell In-Reply-To: <87isgo4ub2.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> (Matthew Mundell's message of "28 Mar 2004 20:59:13 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21061 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21061 Matthew Mundell writes: > Juri Linkov writes: >> 1. Add the touch dired command that works like other dired commands >> which change file attributes: chmod, chown, chgrp; >> 2a. Add a feature that guesses the initial input for these >> dired commands; >> 2b. Rewrite these dired commands to use Emacs primitives. > > If the commands are going to be rewritten soon to use primitives then > perhaps step 1 can be skipped. It's only for the sake of adding one feature at a time. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/