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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Help-Gnu-Emacs@Gnu.Org
Subject: Re: Permission column in a "dired" buffer
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:17:43 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pm5vsag8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25740.28412.160952.539911@woitok.gmail.com> (message from Dr Rainer Woitok on Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:17:35 +0200)

> From: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:17:35 +0200
> 
> Greeting,
> 
> in my old XEmacs days  I was used to point the mouse  somewhere into the
> permission column of a "dired" buffer  and then to toggle the permission
> under the mouse by middle-clicking it.   I have run "M-x apropos dired-"
> and searched for  "perm"  in the resulting buffer,  but didn't find any-
> thing helpful :-(
> 
> Is this functionality really missing from Emacs?

That's available in wdired if you set
wdired-allow-to-change-permissions non-nil.



      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-16 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-16 14:17 Permission column in a "dired" buffer Dr Rainer Woitok
2023-06-16 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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