Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2005/10/20, Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I made myself M-x chmod below, to change the current visited file. I >> usually just want to make a script executable. I know there's an >> executable-chmod or something, but I can never remember and prefer >> typing 755 or 700. The save-buffer is in case it's a new file. > > Why not (1) Give `set-file-modes' an interactive spec (defaulting to > the current buffer's filename), and (2) make `set-file-modes' > understand chmod-style strings as well as integer modes (I guess the > interactive spec would have to decide how to parse integers -- would > defaulting to octal be reasonable?).
Isn't that more or less what I proposed in my package proposal ? - A `chmod-style strings' parser, - A facility to have M-x chmod understand both octal and symbolic modes, - A way to change the current file modes without saving it. ? -- Michael Cadilhac, a.k.a. Micha [mika] | Epita/LRDE promo 2007 | Please note that you should 2 rue de la Convention | 08.70.65.13.14 | s/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@/ my mail address. 94270 Le Kremlin Bicetre | 06.23.20.31.30 | _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel