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From: Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com>
To: Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy@cowgar.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Treat :tangle-mode as an octal value not integer
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:48:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6jvcwdd.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210928145448.245883-1-jeremy@cowgar.com>

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Hi  Jeremy,

> As an org user I would expect :tangle-mode 0660 to produce a file that
> has user rw, group rw, other nothing. Instead, what really happens
> currently is 0660 is treated as an integer which is actually
> 3140. This produces unexpected file permissions.

I agree that :tangle-mode could be more user-friendly. However, I think we can
go further. Currently, only (identity #o755 / 493) works, however I think it would be
good if it worked like chmod and accepted most of the following forms:
⁃ `#o755'
⁃ `755' (because people are used to this, as technically misleading as it may be,
  as long as we can tell “:tangle-mode 356” from “:tangle-mode (identity #o544)”)
⁃ `rw' (equivalent to a=rw, and so #o555)
⁃ `a=rw,u+x' (equivalent to #o755) [hardest to support, so maybe?]

And then I’d also be in favour of accepting
⁃ `rw-r--r--' (equivalent to #o544)

I think as long as it’s clear what’s intended, and it’s not some home-baked
non-standard format, or terribly annoying to support — why not?

All the best,
Timothy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-29 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-28 14:54 [PATCH] Treat :tangle-mode as an octal value not integer Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-29  6:39 ` tomas
2021-09-29  6:55   ` Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-29  7:21     ` tomas
2021-09-29  7:52     ` dkrm
2021-09-29  8:22       ` tomas
2021-09-29  9:29         ` Gyro Funch
2021-09-29 11:07           ` tomas
2021-09-29 13:17             ` Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-29 13:55               ` tomas
2021-09-29  7:10   ` Greg Minshall
2021-09-29 11:35 ` Bastien
2021-09-29 13:48 ` Timothy [this message]
2021-09-29 14:26   ` tomas
2021-09-29 14:58     ` Timothy
2021-09-29 15:13       ` Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-30 18:13         ` Timothy
2021-09-29 15:14       ` tomas
2021-09-29 17:18     ` Greg Minshall
2021-09-29 18:15       ` tomas
2021-11-18 12:04       ` Timothy

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