From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired and file access times Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:03:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263232732 24947 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2010 17:58:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:58:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 11 18:58:41 2010 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 1NUOXI-0000CV-GC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:58:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NUOXJ-0001nu-8m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:58:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe21.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wBJl9YvpmW1GcviB+Z/YaXyJYJw= Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:03:54 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176110 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:71175 Archived-At: > 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