Re: suggestion for set-file-modes

[Juri Linkov]

>>   > Maybe a more intuitive thing we can do is to prompt the following :
>>   >
>>   > "File modes, octal or symbolic (current: -r-xrw---):"
>>
>> This form is exactly what I had in mind. This format is familiar to
>> people from "ls -l".  If users request something else, it can be changed
>> later, but this should do for now.  Obviously, this is all IMHO...
>
> Following that proposition, on which we agreed, here's a patch.

This is very nice, but why you don't accept this string in the same format
allowing the user to enter it in the minibuffer (i.e. why you didn't
implement `file-modes-ls-to-number')?

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Juri Linkov
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