"Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> There IS a function called set-file-modes.  It is not interactive.  My
> idea is to rename that to set-file-modes-internal, and use your chmod
> command under the name set-file-modes.  It should accept a numeric
> mode argument too; that way, existing callers will still work.  It
> would use file-modes-to-number.
>
> Would you like to work on such a patch?

  Of course, here's attached !

> Have we got legal papers from you for Emacs?

  Nop, what's the procedure ?

  Patch follows.

 lisp/ChangeLog     |    5 +
 lisp/file-modes.el |  148 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lispref/ChangeLog  |    6 ++
 lispref/files.texi |   25 -!!!!!!!
 src/ChangeLog      |    5 +
 src/fileio.c       |   18 !!!!!!
 6 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-), 38 modifications(!)