GNU bug report logs - #50323
27.2; dired-do-touch documentation improvement

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: joshua <at> joshuao.com

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 15:28:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.2

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: joshua <at> joshuao.com, 50323 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50323: 27.2; dired-do-touch documentation improvement
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2021 18:52:52 +0300

>> Rather, to fit in with the other lines I'd reccomend
>>
>> "Touch the specified files (dired-do-touch). This means updating their
>> modification times to /timestamp/. This is like the shell command
>> touch."
>
> Thanks; now updated to this in Emacs 28.

It seems the original text tried to say that dired-do-touch
defaults to the present time when RET is typed in the minibuffer,
and indeed it prompt says " (default now): ".
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