From: Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin@yahoo.com.au>
To: 22578@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22578: 24.5; dired-do-chmod on . or .. directories
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:20:27 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737t52g9g.fsf@blah.blah> (raw)
It'd be good if dired "M" `dired-do-chmod' could act on the "." and ".."
directories in the dired buffer.
As far as I can tell there'd be no reason they shouldn't. I struck this
wanting to add write permission to a directory which had been left
read-only (something out of an unzip or untar).
(Presently dired-do-chmod also queries for the mode before announcing it
won't act on . or .., whereas of course usually in other places in emacs
such failing pre-conditions are checked before user input.)
In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
of 2016-01-23 on x86-csail-01, modified by Debian
Configured using:
`configure --build i586-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--localstatedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
--build i586-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib
--infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
--with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-toolkit-scroll-bars
--without-gconf --without-gsettings 'CFLAGS=-g -O2
-fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall'
'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'
next reply other threads:[~2016-02-07 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-07 6:20 Kevin Ryde [this message]
2016-02-07 18:25 ` bug#22578: 24.5; dired-do-chmod on . or .. directories Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10 10:57 ` Kevin Ryde
2016-02-10 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-15 12:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-16 9:34 ` Kevin Ryde via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-08-16 12:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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