The original regexes would match inside other arguments;

Eg.

    mkexec foo-foo

would match as if -f was presented.

Makes it easier to see explicitly how date is obtained.

As a bous, it will be also easier to parametrize limits.

Hard-coded limits are 3 lines and 80 chars per line.  Empty lines are
ignored (not counted to the limit).

File can be '-' for standard input

like if someone's ever going to do it, right...?
("C:\Program Files\fastfoo" ... ugh...)

(Humanity could use that)

More truth, less BS.

This also means -E is useless

We assume no std* / fd* hocus-pocus

If the edited path matches certain pattern, timestamp is saved and
restored after the edit.

They are unnecessary, distracting and cause ugliness on command line.