bug#18915: 24.3; Feature: Prompt to make executable on write-file

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> It would be useful if Emacs on write-file would first write the
>> new file, and then (only if that involved creating the new file,
>> and only if the buffer was previously visiting an executable file)
>> prompt for whether to make the newly written file executable.
>
> That could be done, even without prompting, I think.

So I've now done this in Emacs 29.

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