Subject: bug#24897: closed (Re: bug#24897: 24.5; doc for `M' in Dired)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:02:02 +0000

Your bug report

#24897: 24.5; doc for `M' in Dired

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#24897: 24.5; doc for `M' in Dired
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
To: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:01:06 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> > How about the attached?
>
> LGTM, please install, and thanks.

Thanks.  Pushed to master as commit ed29d0239a.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Subject: 24.5; doc for `M' in Dired
From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:52:13 -0800 (PST)
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This: http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/28504/105, asks how to make files
read-only using Dired.  Besides using wdired, the obvious answer is to
use `M'.

However, in answering that, it becomes clear that the questioner does
not know the UNIX command `chmod', and might not know about file and
directory permissions.  S?he might not even have what it takes locally
to use `M-x man', to find out.  And the doc for `M' - both the doc
string and the Emacs manual, does not really explain `chmod' or what
kind of input a user can type to the prompt from `M'.

I think it would be helpful, for at least some users, to add some more
explanation.  In particular, it could explain about u, g, o, and a, and
about the permissions fields rwx and their values.

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'