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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac)
Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggestion for set-file-modes
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:57:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ablzmejk.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ir0nhsrt.fsf@cadilhac.name> ("Michaël Cadilhac"'s message of "Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:01:42 -0500")

>> What format the input should have is a separate question.
>
> My question was about the three different notations for file modes, and
> why this one (-rwxrwx-wx) should be preferred as the one to express the
> default value.  I wasn't questioning the way values are entered in the
> minibuffer at all.  I was referring to what you call the format.

We can add the existing permissions in all three notations to the list
of minibuffer default values, so the user could relieve them by using M-n
for editing, or type a new one without retrieving the default values.

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




  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-17 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200801201812.m0KICxYl009632@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu>
     [not found] ` <871w7jqiic.fsf@cadilhac.name>
     [not found]   ` <200802112200.m1BM0pke028675@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu>
2008-02-11 23:41     ` suggestion for set-file-modes Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-16 19:19       ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-16 23:07         ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-16 23:27           ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17  0:14             ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-17  0:48               ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17  1:08                 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-17  1:31                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17  2:04                     ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-17  2:21                       ` Miles Bader
2008-02-17 21:54                       ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-29 17:43                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17  1:39                 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-17 20:29                   ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-18  3:01                     ` Michaël Cadilhac
2008-02-17 21:57                       ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-02-17 21:55                   ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17 22:18                     ` Miles Bader
2008-02-17 22:59                       ` Juri Linkov

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