From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-do-touch Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:14:05 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k711hfnm.fsf@mail.jurta.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> <87r7valdhb.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080703447 16693 80.91.224.253 (31 Mar 2004 03:24:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:24:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 31 05:23:51 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 1B8WKU-0004hQ-00 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:23:50 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8WKU-0002U6-00 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:23:50 +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 1B8WFg-0007cF-19 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:18:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B8WDy-00075O-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:17:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B8WDR-0006jw-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:17:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.6] (helo=knife.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B8WDR-0006jd-1a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-32-111-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.32.111]) by knife.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA32E4032; Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:16:30 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Matthew Mundell In-Reply-To: <87r7valdhb.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.org> (Matthew Mundell's message of "30 Mar 2004 13:35:12 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:21117 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21117 Matthew Mundell writes: > Juri Linkov writes: >> 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. rwxrwxrwx is simpler because it is WYSIWYG. And it's easier for the user to change when s?he is presented with the initial value to edit. And it's what (nth 8 (file-attributes file)) returns, so the reverse operation will be logical. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/