Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

> michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
>
>   > ** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in
>   > symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions.
>
> This is great!

Isn't it? :-) Wow, this patch concludes my very first post in
emacs.devel :-)

> Can you please add handling of the 'X' format?

  $ touch /dd/test && chmod 100 /dd/test && la /dd/test
---x------ 1 micha micha 0 2007-09-10 16:57 /dd/test

  M-x set-file-modes RET /dd/test RET o+X

  $ la /dd/test
---x-----x 1 micha micha 0 2007-09-10 16:57 /dd/test

In which case is it ignored?

> And so is "-R"

The (info "(coreutils)Symbolic Modes") node doesn't know about that.  Do
you mean the recursive feature of chmod?  In which case, I don't think
it really is the job of `set-file-modes' to handle this.  Maybe it could
be a feature of dired.

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