From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Lennart Borgman'" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
"'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 9362@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9362: 24.0.50; Explain in manual(s) Dired/ls permissions listing on Windows
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:44:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B9D819493EFA4C2E9C67F1C460257D8C@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANbX364e4mUbGApWrUnDAysqwNLfuKcTDdVx=iyFCv1AjNyJBA@mail.gmail.com>
> > Isn't explaining how file permissions on various file systems kinda
> > beyond the scope of the Emacs manual?
>
> Isn't this is about what Emacs does, not about the various
> file systems?
Exactly. The _Emacs_ `ls' command is not sufficiently documented. In
particular, what it does on Windows is special and needs to be described.
Otherwise the output is meaningless to users. `ls' is an Emacs command. No
outside doc for Windows will tell a user what it does. Likewise, `dired'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-11 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 16:05 bug#9362: 24.0.50; Explain in manual(s) Dired/ls permissions listing on Windows Drew Adams
2011-09-11 2:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 2:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-11 14:44 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-04-28 11:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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