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Re: suggestion for set-file-modes
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: suggestion for set-file-modes |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:27:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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')?
>
> Well, I've never seen anyone (or any tool) using that notation to *set*
> file modes. Yes, it will allow Emacs to tend to more completeness, but
> I think Emacs goal lays more in usefulness.
>
> Do you have any practical case in which that notation could be more
> natural?
Wdired mode allows editing such file permissions in the dired buffer
(when `wdired-allow-to-change-permissions' is non-nil), so it would be
natural to allow entering file permission in the same notation in
the minibuffer. There already exists a function that converts
that notation to the number: `wdired-perms-to-number'.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/11
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Miles Bader, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Miles Bader, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/17