Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Cc: 70725@debbugs.gnu.org >> From: Thierry Volpiatto >> Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 04:55:41 +0000 >> >> Christopher Howard writes: >> >> > 1. install helm >> > 2. emacs -q >> > 3. M-x helm-mode >> > 4. M-x dired (to some directory with files) >> > 5. M-x dired-do-touch (T) >> > >> > My problem is that, when I try to use this command in helm mode, helm >> > only gives me one completion option - the timestamp already on the >> > file. Helm tells me it is responding to a completing-read call. But >> > the dired-do-touch prompt says that the default action should be >> > "now", i.e., the current date and time. Maybe this is a helm issue, >> > but I was wondering if maybe something needs to be tweaked in >> > dired-do-touch so that it passes a correct completion list off to >> > completing-read. >> >> "now" is not a valid answer for touch, it is just here in prompt to tell >> you what DEFAULT is, so what you see in Helm completion is what you have >> with vanilla Emacs if you press M-n. There is no issue here. >> That said you have better time using helm-find-files instead of dired >> for such operations on files. > > Thanks, Thierry. I'm therefore closing this bug. Hello Eli, I didn't check carefully and I see now that the prompt says "now" for DEFAULT but indeed the DEFAULT is the timestamp of the selected file and not `current-time`, so to reflect what the prompt says (now) we have to modify DEFAULT, maybe like this in `dired-do-chxxx`: @@ -437,4 +437,7 @@ - (format-time-string - "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S" - (file-attribute-modification-time - (file-attributes default-file)))) + (list + (format-time-string + "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S" (current-time)) + (format-time-string + "%Y%m%d%H%M.%S" + (file-attribute-modification-time + (file-attributes default-file))))) -- Thierry