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bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup)
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup) |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Sep 2022 08:28:02 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Yeah, editing the permissions doesn't seem to work for me in dired. If
> I start with
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 larsi larsi 329K Aug 21 18:22 IMG_4478.JPG
>
> and press DEL after the final dash, it'll delete the dash and then say
> "Text is read only", leaving me with:
>
> -rw-r--r- 1 larsi larsi 329K Aug 21 18:22 IMG_4478.JPG
>
> And then I can't insert anything there, because it's now read-only. So
> something is wonky in the way wdired tries to make certain bits of the
> line read-only.
Setting wdired-allow-to-change-permissions to t or `advanced' made this
work -- you can't really edit the permissions without that.
So I guess there's nothing more to be done here...