Subject: bug#2729: 23.0.90; file-modes-symbolic-to-number: Parse error in modes near `g='

From: "Roland Winkler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:18:24 +0100

On Fri Mar 20 2009 Glenn Morris wrote:
> "Roland Winkler" wrote:
> > When I use dired-do-chmod to change file modes with an argument like
> > `g=', I get the error message
>
> What is the precise argument which causes
> file-modes-symbolic-to-number to fail?

As I said in the original bug report, an argument like `g=' which
removes all permissions for group does not work for me.

Roland