From: michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac)
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggestion for set-file-modes
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:41:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6fjoybf.fsf@cadilhac.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802112200.m1BM0pke028675@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:00:51 -0800")
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Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
>
> > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> >
> > > I think it would be good if set-file-modes would display the current
> > > modes in symbolic form in the prompt for changing them.
> >
> > Displaying the current modes is probably a good thing to do, but putting
> > it in the prompt in order to be changed seems weird: when the modes are
> > expressed in symbolic notation, they are used as a *mask* against the
> > current modes, not a simple modification.
> > Maybe a more intuitive thing we can do is to prompt the following :
> >
> > "File modes, octal or symbolic (current: -r-xrw---):"
>
> This form is exactly what I had in mind. This format is familiar to
> people from "ls -l". If users request something else, it can be changed
> later, but this should do for now. Obviously, this is all IMHO...
Following that proposition, on which we agreed, here's a patch.
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Index: files.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/files.el,v
retrieving revision 1.959
diff -b -u -w -r1.959 files.el
--- files.el 30 Jan 2008 21:25:08 -0000 1.959
+++ files.el 11 Feb 2008 23:38:35 -0000
@@ -5464,7 +5464,7 @@
(t
(apply operation arguments)))))
\f
-;; Symbolic modes and read-file-modes.
+;; Symbolic modes, ls-type modes, and read-file-modes.
(defun file-modes-char-to-who (char)
"Convert CHAR to a who-mask from a symbolic mode notation.
@@ -5543,13 +5543,38 @@
(error "Parse error in modes near `%s'" (substring modes 0))))
num-modes)))
+(defun file-modes-number-to-ls (modes)
+ "Convert the numerical MODES into the `ls' notation."
+ (let (string)
+ (dotimes (i 3 string)
+ (let* ((is-executable (/= 0 (logand modes 1)))
+ (exec-bit
+ (or (cond ((and (= i 0) ;; Sticky.
+ (/= 0 (logand modes #o1000)))
+ (if is-executable "t" "T"))
+ ((or (and (= i 1) ;; Set-gid.
+ (/= 0 (logand modes #o200)))
+ (and (= i 2) ;; Set-uid.
+ (/= 0 (logand modes #o40))))
+ (if is-executable "s" "S")))
+ (if is-executable "x" "-"))))
+ (setq string (concat (if (/= 0 (logand modes 4)) "r" "-")
+ (if (/= 0 (logand modes 2)) "w" "-")
+ exec-bit string))
+ (setq modes (lsh modes -3))))))
+
(defun read-file-modes (&optional prompt orig-file)
"Read file modes in octal or symbolic notation.
-PROMPT is used as the prompt, default to `File modes (octal or symbolic): '.
-ORIG-FILE is the original file of which modes will be change."
+PROMPT is used as the prompt, default to `File modes, octal or symbolic'
+followed by the current modes of ORIG-FILE.
+ORIG-FILE is the file of which modes will be changed."
(let* ((modes (or (if orig-file (file-modes orig-file) 0)
(error "File not found")))
- (value (read-string (or prompt "File modes (octal or symbolic): "))))
+ (ls-type-modes (when orig-file
+ (concat " (current: " (file-modes-number-to-ls modes)
+ ")")))
+ (value (read-string (or prompt (concat "File modes, octal or symbolic"
+ ls-type-modes ": ")))))
(save-match-data
(if (string-match "^[0-7]+" value)
(string-to-number value 8)
Diffs between working revision and workfile end here.
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If there's no complain in a few days, I'll install it.
--
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2008-02-11 23:41 ` Michaël Cadilhac [this message]
2008-02-16 19:19 ` suggestion for set-file-modes 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
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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