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Re: suggestion for set-file-modes
From: |
Michaël Cadilhac |
Subject: |
Re: suggestion for set-file-modes |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:14:36 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 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
(BTW thanks, looking at this variable allowed me to remove all
references to `dired-chmod-program'.)
> natural to allow entering file permission in the same notation in
> the minibuffer.
I still don't think really so ; the rational for Wdired to permit that
is that the bits are *toggled*, not arbitrary set.
> There already exists a function that converts that notation to the
> number: `wdired-perms-to-number'.
For instance, that function doesn't check for error (it should,
however). The so-said `advanced' mode is only useful for mass chmod-ing
(using replace-string and like), which is not the purpose of
`read-file-modes'.
I'd really prefer not to have two symbolic notations in here.
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- 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, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes,
Michaël Cadilhac <=
- 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
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17