dired-do-touch

[Matthew Mundell]

In Dired "T" could touch the current file with the touch shell
command.


2004-02-08  Matthew Mundell  <address@hidden>

        * dired-aux.el (dired-do-touch): New defun.

        * dired.el: Bind dired-do-touch to T.


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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/dired.el,v
retrieving revision 1.272
diff -u -r1.272 dired.el
--- lisp/dired.el       3 Feb 2004 16:55:30 -0000       1.272
+++ lisp/dired.el       20 Mar 2004 14:04:27 -0000
@@ -895,6 +895,7 @@
     (define-key map "Q" 'dired-do-query-replace-regexp)
     (define-key map "R" 'dired-do-rename)
     (define-key map "S" 'dired-do-symlink)
+    (define-key map "T" 'dired-do-touch)
     (define-key map "X" 'dired-do-shell-command)
     (define-key map "Z" 'dired-do-compress)
     (define-key map "!" 'dired-do-shell-command)


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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/dired-aux.el,v
retrieving revision 1.114
diff -u -r1.114 dired-aux.el
--- lisp/dired-aux.el   8 Feb 2004 22:38:51 -0000       1.114
+++ lisp/dired-aux.el   20 Mar 2004 15:15:26 -0000
@@ -2135,6 +2135,17 @@
       (backward-delete-char 1))
     (message "%s" (buffer-string))))

+;;;###autoload
+(defun dired-do-touch (file)
+  "Touch the current file with the `touch' program."
+  (interactive (list (dired-get-filename t)))
+  (with-temp-buffer
+    (call-process "touch" nil t t "--" file)
+    (unless (bobp)
+      (when (bolp)
+       (backward-delete-char 1))
+      (message "%s" (buffer-string)))))
+
 (provide 'dired-aux)

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