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[Emacs-diffs] master ed29d02: Improve documentation of dired-do-chmod
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Stefan Kangas |
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[Emacs-diffs] master ed29d02: Improve documentation of dired-do-chmod |
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Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:00:46 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit ed29d0239a03b6eee418e438edee6b2df7612606
Author: Stefan Kangas <address@hidden>
Commit: Stefan Kangas <address@hidden>
Improve documentation of dired-do-chmod
* lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-do-chmod): Doc fix. The part about
MS-Windows was written by Eli Zaretskii. (Bug#24897)
---
lisp/dired-aux.el | 14 +++++++++++---
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el
index bfc37c5..8bda25e 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-aux.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el
@@ -365,9 +365,17 @@ List has a form of (file-name full-file-name
(attribute-list))."
;;;###autoload
(defun dired-do-chmod (&optional arg)
"Change the mode of the marked (or next ARG) files.
-Symbolic modes like `g+w' are allowed.
-Type M-n to pull the file attributes of the file at point
-into the minibuffer."
+Both octal numeric modes like `644' and symbolic modes like `g+w'
+are supported. Type M-n to pull the file attributes of the file
+at point into the minibuffer.
+
+See Info node `(coreutils)File permissions' for more information.
+Alternatively, see the man page for \"chmod\", using the command
+\\[man] in Emacs.
+
+Note that on MS-Windows only the `w' (write) bit is meaningful:
+resetting it makes the file read-only. Changing any other bit
+has no effect on MS-Windows."
(interactive "P")
(let* ((files (dired-get-marked-files t arg nil nil t))
;; The source of default file attributes is the file at point.
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