Re: suggestion for set-file-modes

[Juri Linkov]

>> 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.

The standard convention when reading a value in the minibuffer is to put
the default value in the prompt and make it available for editing by M-n.
When the permission bits are retrieved in such notation from the default
value then editing them is just like toggling that is convenient.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/