From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew Mundell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-do-touch Date: 30 Mar 2004 13:35:12 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r7valdhb.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> References: <8765czqqyj.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <8765ctkmdo.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87k7165zee.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <9681-Sat27Mar2004141724+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <87vfkq1lss.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87ekre6zft.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <87oeqitbga.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87isgo4ub2.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> <874qs7wjlk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87y8pik470.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080656345 4675 80.91.224.253 (30 Mar 2004 14:19:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:19:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 30 16:18:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8K4x-0001E9-00 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:18:59 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8K4x-00073R-00 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:18:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B8Ic8-000724-8k for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:45:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B8Ib8-00071S-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:44:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B8Iab-0006xI-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.158.120.143] (helo=mail.ukfsn.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B8ISY-00069u-NR; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (lucy.ukfsn.org [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485E7E6D3F; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:34:05 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lucy.ukfsn.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19350-04; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:34:05 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from sno.mundell.ukfsn.org (dsl213-218-238-16.as15444.net [213.218.238.16]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C7EE6D37; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:34:05 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from sno.mundell.ukfsn.org ([10.0.0.3]) by sno.mundell.ukfsn.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8ISX-0000M2-00; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:35:13 +0100 Original-To: Juri Linkov Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:21090 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21090 Juri Linkov writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: [...] > > I wish Emacs had something more human-friendly, perhaps accessible via > > mouse clicks on the date/time fields of the Dired display or some such. > > It's a good idea to change file attributes diredctly (I mistyped this word > instead of "directly", but the new word makes sense :-) on a dired buffer. > > There also was a suggestion to make dired permission fields > editable. Editing permission fields and names directly can be done with wdired-mode. It's wdired.el in the Debian emacs-goodies-el package. The source suggests finding it via http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=gnu.emacs.sources&as_q=wdired. > BTW, I think that since we will modify the file mode changing command > to use the primitive, we could add a `rwxrwxrwx'-like format to formats > acceptable by the `set-file-modes' (or perhaps to a new mode-parsing > wrapper around it). This seems worse than the a+rwx format.