From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dired permission warning and marking such files
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:09:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874pb73oc0.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0803150951v11f26359y10c7d2af5d862022@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:51:31 +0100")
> I have been following the recent discussion about the warning that
> Dired emits in the form of a font locked "w". I don't care much about
> the face really but something that struck me was that there doesn't
> seem to be any easy way to fix the "problem" that Dired warns about. I
> had to record a keyboard macro, searching for the specific pattern and
> marking those lines, and then I had to run this macro until all
> "warned" lines was marked. Then I could use M-! and do a `chmod' to
> fix the permissions.
>
> I would have expected to find some command to mark files with certain
> permissions under the Mark menu.
>
> What do others think?
You can load dired-x and type in dired:
M-( (string-match "\\(w....\\|w.\\)$" mode) RET
M go-w RET
Alternatively, you can set `wdired-allow-to-change-permissions' to
`advanced', and use `query-replace'.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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2008-03-15 16:51 Dired permission warning and marking such files Mathias Dahl
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