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Re: dired-do-touch


From: Fabian Braennstroem
Subject: Re: dired-do-touch
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:32:42 +0000
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Peter Dyballa schrieb am 08/23/2007 06:06 PM:
> Am 23.08.2007 um 19:35 schrieb Sean Sieger:
> 
>> I expected that
>>
>> T <RET> filename <RET>
>>
>> would create a file.
> 
> Dired works only on existing files. And directories. Although there  
> is an exception ... see below!
> 
>> Is C-x C-f the only way to create a new file in dired or is there a  
>> one-key key-binding?
> 
> No. You can use *shell* or such buffers to create new files, you can  
> copy or rename, or in dired-mode:
> 
>       ! t o u c h SPC <file name>
> 
>> On a different note, do you use bookmarks extensively?
> 
> No. And neither intensively. Not at all, for short.

I use it a lot and it is great; first I used a small macro
to jump to the directories and since yesterday
evening:

     (define-key dired-mode-map "1"
       (lambda ()
         (interactive)
         (bookmark-jump "bookmark name")))

which is a lot faster :-)

Regards!
Fabian


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