From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:05:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87o7vmgohv.fsf@gnus.org> References: <55e059fe-c2ae-e8cb-20e2-30de656ce0a7@cs.ucla.edu> <87pmu1kapc.fsf@gnus.org> <87czc3oia5.fsf@gnus.org> <87mtb6zoed.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33097"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 50189@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert , Arthur Miller To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 11 13:07:56 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oXKoe-0008RY-7u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:07:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38446 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXKoa-0005HN-UW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:07:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48684) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXKmo-0004aF-Jw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52173) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oXKmo-0006gR-9L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oXKmo-0002lY-4n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:06:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 11:06:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50189 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 50189-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50189.166289434410609 (code B ref 50189); Sun, 11 Sep 2022 11:06:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50189) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Sep 2022 11:05:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40872 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oXKmW-0002l3-7x for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:05:44 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:39180) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oXKmV-0002kp-2W for 50189@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 07:05:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References: In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=PHtnpUPNi9xTqWssM+lLRDVlaebzqOd2elVoBexwbPI=; b=NCXttL3DZhHjQ5iDw68F9HV0m9 /ZOp719IYB9mYW/CtWSYL669pGGHQzGFF0cHUzgT5XmJ5Cm1C3x/vtj1B/+EQziSXykWMKf6aTxa5 uXljkUB/1CRzCDsxhLNfVZ/TF1vib1g9BCfsqzkoR0iV0nU/guqpZ8wqKOWR94nqNDJk=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=joga) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oXKmK-0003XH-Ue; Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:05:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87mtb6zoed.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2022 03:32:42 +0200") X-Now-Playing: Insides's _Euphoria_: "Distractions" X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:242143 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: >> Setting wdired-allow-to-change-permissions to t or `advanced' made this >> work -- you can't really edit the permissions without that. > > That behavior not optimal and a bit confusing. Yeah, like a lot of stuff with dired and wdired, unfortunately. > I think we could make wdired explicitly check for and throw a > "user-error" in this case so that the editing command is not performed > (but only after the properties were attached). You mean in the wdired-allow-to-change-permissions nil case? Yes, definitely.