GNU bug report logs - #24897
24.5; doc for `M' in Dired

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 18:53:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.5

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 24897 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 24897 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#24897: 24.5; doc for `M' in Dired
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:51:31 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:43:23 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 24897 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> +See the man page for \"chmod\" for more information on file mode
> +bits, using the command \\[man] in Emacs.

On GNU/Linux, 'chmod' is documented in the Coreutils Info manual, and
the GNU Coding Standards generally prefer Info to man pages.  So I'd
suggest to point to the Coreutils manual first, and to the man page
only as fallback.

> +This command is generally not relevant on MS-Windows."

This is too extreme.  The correct statement is this:

  Note that on MS-Windows this command can only set or reset
  the `w' (write) bit, but cannot change any other bits.
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