Re: File modes facilities.

[Michael Cadilhac <michael.cadilhac-@t-lrde.epita.fr>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Michael Cadilhac <michael.cadilhac-@t-lrde.epita.fr>
>> 
>> >  > >>   I don't know any  way to change the modes of a  file, or even of the
>> >  > >>   current file, within emacs.
>> >  > >
>> >  > > C-h f set-file-modes RET
>> >  > 
>> >  >   I meant in an user-friendly way.
>> >
>> > In Dired, type M (`dired-do-chmod')?
>> 
>>   First, it  uses dired. Second, it uses the chmod(1) executable
>>
> It sounds like you won't accept any solution except your own ;-)

  Hehe :-) The  principal thing that keeps me up is  that I don't have
  chmod(1) on my  (poorly configured) Windows, and that  I chmod quite
  often the file I work with (I  chmod -w file I don't want to modify,
  but if I really have to, I chmod them back +w) :-)

> FWIW, I think the natural place for changing files' modes is in
> Dired;

  Yep, if I plan to work with files, I'll launch a dired, then use
  M. My point is that I'm most likely to change modes of one file, and
  search it in dired mode is not the most direct way I know.

> a separate interactive command, while I don't object to it, will be
> used only by those who prefer command-line UI to GUI.

  In that case, I see the GUI as a waste of time :-p

> If we want dired-do-chmod to work on systems without an external chmod
> command, we can easily modify dired-do-chmod to use set-file-modes.

  Yep, please do, but please do it with symbol parsing
  ([ugoa]*([+-=][rwxXstugo]+)+,...) too :-)

  I'll then make  my own wrapper around newly  coded functions to have
  the features I use ;-)

  Thanks :-)

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