From: "A. Peter Blicher" <blicher@comcast.net>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 41570@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 09:43:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6153cdf9-b69b-cb2a-4eec-834d064bf992@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1kFTm3-0001cx-If@fencepost.gnu.org>
Well, I'd agree with that. Right now the message I get is "chown not
supported on this system" The ambiguity is (a) sorry, we haven't gotten
around to implementing that yet, vs (b) Your OS version doesn't provide the
functionality to do it.
It wouldn't probably hurt to say "Try the Windows command line command 'takeown.'
--peter
On 9/7/2020 7:54 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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>
> > It's already the case in emacs
> > that trying to do chown in Dired under Windows yields an error message.
>
> My suggestion is to adjust the error message so that it clearly explains
> the situation.
>
> Many programs sometimes report an error with an error message
> that doesn't tell the user what is wrong. It is worth some effort
> to make our error messages explain clearly to users what the problem is
> and what caused it. That way, they can tell what to do.
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-27 21:46 bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown A. Peter Blicher
2020-05-28 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-28 15:54 ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-05-28 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-28 16:26 ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-09-03 20:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-03 21:36 ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-09-03 21:38 ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-09-03 22:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-04 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-04 11:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-05 3:17 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-05 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06 3:54 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-06 14:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-06 17:30 ` A. Peter Blicher
2020-09-08 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-08 16:43 ` A. Peter Blicher [this message]
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