From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>,
"Michaël Cadilhac" <michael@cadilhac.name>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: suggestion for set-file-modes
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:59:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzk7i3zq.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hcg7ns4w.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:18:55 +0900")
>> `-rw-rwxr-x' seems easier to type than `a+r,ug+w,go+x'
>
> You needn't type that, of course; I'd probably use "ug=rwx,o=rx".
> Familiar, easy to type, and to understand.
>
>> but we don't need decide what notation is preferable as we can
>> support all of them.
>
> Why complicate the code to support the "-rw-rwxr-x" format though? It's
> not used by any other software, and offers no obvious advantage in
> usability.
The only software I know that supports reading the "-rw-rwxr-x" format is
Wdired. Supporting it in set-file-modes is not very necessary, but the
problem came from the patch proposed by Michaël where the prompt is
displayed as:
File modes, octal or symbolic (current: -r-xrw---):
The string inside parentheses before the colon looks very like the default
value, so it invites the user to type a new value in the same format.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[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
2008-02-17 21:55 ` Juri Linkov
2008-02-17 22:18 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-17 22:59 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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