From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired and file access times
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:03:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk4voh8y6.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1077.1263114987.18930.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Is there a way to configure Dired so that it does not change file
> access times when searching files?
I don't think anybody has written the necessary code for that, no.
> I think that would be useful. "Access to the file" means the user has
> opened it. Search or indexer program should be transparent!
We could accept a patch for such a feature, indeed, although I think the
tendency nowadays is to make atime less and less reliable (witness the
noatime/relatime and friends).
Stefan
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2010-01-11 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-01-09 15:59 dired and file access times Daniel Carvalho
2010-01-10 9:49 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-01-10 12:24 ` Daniel Carvalho
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