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29.3; dired-do-touch completion

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
Cc: christopher <at> librehacker.com, 70725-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70725: 29.3; dired-do-touch completion
Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 09:13:14 +0300

> Cc: 70725 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
> Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 04:55:41 +0000
> 
> Christopher Howard <christopher <at> librehacker.com> 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.

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