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

From: "Roland Winkler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:41:00 +0100

When I use dired-do-chmod to change file modes with an argument like
`g=', I get the error message

Parse error in modes near `g='

There is no such error with GNU Emacs 22.2.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4)
 of 2009-02-23 on regnitz
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000