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dired-font-lock-keywords should warn about SUID files too!

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>, <8186 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#8186: dired-font-lock-keywords should warn about SUID files too!
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:15:46 -0800

> dired-font-lock-keywords is nice, but it totally forgot about the more
> dangerous SUID and SGID 4xxx and 2xxx mode files! E.g.,
>   -rwsr-xr-x  1 root root     33 Mar  6 12:59 somefile

FWIW -

Dired fontification of permissions came from my suggestion many moon ago.
Acceptance was half-hearted and the feature was implemented only partially.

The different permissions have been highlighted individually in Dired+ for
decades, including the ones you mention.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/dired%2b.el

So 1+ to your suggestion.

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