From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew Mundell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-do-touch Date: 31 Mar 2004 16:53:04 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87oeqdvwrj.fsf@sno.mundell.ukfsn.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> <87k711hfnm.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080749228 24798 80.91.224.253 (31 Mar 2004 16:07:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 31 18:07:00 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 1B8iF1-0005Pl-00 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:06:59 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8iF1-0003dI-00 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:06:59 +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 1B8i67-0004Ym-QW for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:57:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B8i5V-0004SM-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B8i4y-0004Jy-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.158.120.143] (helo=mail.ukfsn.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B8i1c-0003RM-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:53:08 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (lucy.ukfsn.org [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B4DE6DFE; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:51:50 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (lucy.ukfsn.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00824-01; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:51:50 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from sno.mundell.ukfsn.org (dsl213-218-238-16.as15444.net [213.218.238.16]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B73E6DF8; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:51:50 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from sno.mundell.ukfsn.org ([10.0.0.3]) by sno.mundell.ukfsn.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8i1Z-0000T4-00; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:53:05 +0100 Original-To: Juri Linkov Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:21131 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:21131 Juri Linkov writes: > 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. Yes, right, there is a step to learning the a+rwx format after understanding the rwxrwxrwx format. > And it's what (nth 8 (file-attributes file)) returns, > so the reverse operation will be logical. Makes sense.