Re: File modes facilities.

[Michael Cadilhac]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> Michael Cadilhac <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>>  > >>   I don't know any  way to change the modes of a  file, or even of the
>>>  > >>   current file, within emacs.
>>>  > >
>>>  > > C-h f set-file-modes RET
>>>  > 
>>>  >   I meant in an user-friendly way, that's to say, without M-:, and
>>>  >   without calculating the mode.
>>>
>>> In Dired, type M (`dired-do-chmod')?
>>
>>   First, it  uses dired,  and I don't  want to  launch a dired  of the
>>   current directory to modify current-file modes.
>>
>>   Second, it uses the chmod(1) executable, which, beside the fact that
>>   another program is called, is not compatible with systems that don't
>>   have  that kind  of binary  installed (like  if one  just downloaded
>>   a compiled version of emacs for Windows on http://www.crasseux.com)
>
> Isn't there something in eshell that can do this?  It supports chmod.

  M-x eshell-command RET chmod =rwx /tmp/a RET

  Same thing: it uses the chmod(1) binary, the prompt is weirdly
  managed and error are reported only with the binary output.

  Well, it's more or less the same  that M-! with a bogus (or at least
  not  intuitive   as  it  doesn't  follow   emacs  conventions)  file
  completion.

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