Re: File modes facilities.

[Michael Cadilhac]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Cc: address@hidden
>> From: Michael Cadilhac <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:41:21 +0200
>> 
>> > If we want dired-do-chmod to work on systems without an external chmod
>> > command, we can easily modify dired-do-chmod to use set-file-modes.
>> 
>>   Yep, please do, but please do it with symbol parsing
>>   ([ugoa]*([+-=][rwxXstugo]+)+,...) too :-)
>
> I rather hoped that you will do that, and submit the changes here ;-)

  Hehe ;-) Someone proposed to make set-file-modes interactive and to
  take modes as an integer or string (octal or symbolic) parameter.

  I would have  preferred not to touch C code, but  on the other hand,
  I don't see why chmod would be dired-mode specific.

  Any advice ?

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