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Re: suggestion for set-file-modes
From: |
Michaël Cadilhac |
Subject: |
Re: suggestion for set-file-modes |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:01:42 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> > The standard convention when reading a value in the minibuffer is to put
> > the default value in the prompt and make it available for editing by
> > M-n.
>
> First, if we have three different notations, why this one should be
> preferred as the default one?
>
> Because I made the decision that way. This is a general policy
> I have adopted for Emacs.
>
> What format the input should have is a separate question.
My question was about the three different notations for file modes, and
why this one (-rwxrwx-wx) should be preferred as the one to express the
default value. I wasn't questioning the way values are entered in the
minibuffer at all. I was referring to what you call the format.
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- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, (continued)
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Miles Bader, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Miles Bader, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes,
Michaël Cadilhac <=
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Miles Bader, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17