From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: suggestion for set-file-modes Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:19:24 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87y79ku2tf.fsf@jurta.org> References: <200801201812.m0KICxYl009632@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <871w7jqiic.fsf@cadilhac.name> <200802112200.m1BM0pke028675@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87r6fjoybf.fsf@cadilhac.name> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203189930 28739 80.91.229.12 (16 Feb 2008 19:25:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:25:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: michael@cadilhac.name (=?utf-8?Q?Micha=C3=ABl?= Cadilhac) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 16 20:25:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JQSfZ-0002OU-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:25:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQSf4-0001KU-Hh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQSf0-0001JP-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQSey-0001H5-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:25:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQSey-0001Gz-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQSex-0002NP-QB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:25:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JQSev-000AVq-0W; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:25:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87r6fjoybf.fsf@cadilhac.name> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Micha=C3=ABl?= Cadilhac"'s message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:41:56 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 1678f860418e8694a064f05d5e21ded6 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 2246 [Feb 15 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:89265 Archived-At: >> > Maybe a more intuitive thing we can do is to prompt the followingš: >> > >> > "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. This is very nice, but why you don't accept this string in the same format allowing the user to enter it in the minibuffer (i.e. why you didn't implement `file-modes-ls-to-number')? -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/