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: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:06:43 +0200 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87vfkq1lss.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080433202 31259 80.91.224.253 (28 Mar 2004 00:20:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 00:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: matt@mundell.ukfsn.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 01:19:54 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 1B7O1q-00074W-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:19:54 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B7O1q-000775-00 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:19:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7Ntl-0006qa-GR for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:11:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7NaL-00045L-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:51:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B7NZd-0003vy-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:51:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B7NZ6-0003ox-OR; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 18:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.4] (helo=spork.dreamhost.com) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B7Dau-0007eV-JH; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:11:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-34-145-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.145]) by spork.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0467E11DC50; Sat, 27 Mar 2004 05:08:10 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <9681-Sat27Mar2004141724+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:17:25 +0200") 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:20995 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20995 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > I don't understand why you insist on using an external program if > Emacs could easily have a primitive to do the same. I think using an > Emacs primitive is faster, in addition to being more portable. I don't see a reason why changing file time should differ from operations changing other file attributes like mode, owner and group. I don't insist on using external programs. If Emacs primitives are faster, then other dired commands for changing other file attributes should be modified to use Emacs primitives too. > The patch to add set-file-times is already reviewed by at least 2 > Emacs maintainers, and is IMHO ready for being checked in. It don't allow to change file times to values other than current time. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/