Re: dired-do-touch

[Matthew Mundell <matt@mundell.ukfsn.org>]

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
[...]
> > I wish Emacs had something more human-friendly, perhaps accessible via
> > mouse clicks on the date/time fields of the Dired display or some such.
>
> It's a good idea to change file attributes diredctly (I mistyped this word
> instead of "directly", but the new word makes sense :-) on a dired buffer.
>
> There also was a suggestion to make dired permission fields
> editable.

Editing permission fields and names directly can be done with
wdired-mode.

It's wdired.el in the Debian emacs-goodies-el package.  The source
suggests finding it via
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=gnu.emacs.sources&as_q=wdired.

> 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.