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bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup)
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#50189: wdired chmod should not follow symlinks (Bug#11912 followup) |
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Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:05:32 +0200 |
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Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>> Setting wdired-allow-to-change-permissions to t or `advanced' made this
>> work -- you can't really edit the permissions without that.
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> That behavior not optimal and a bit confusing.
Yeah, like a lot of stuff with dired and wdired, unfortunately.
> I think we could make wdired explicitly check for and throw a
> "user-error" in this case so that the editing command is not performed
> (but only after the properties were attached).
You mean in the wdired-allow-to-change-permissions nil case? Yes,
definitely.