# HG changeset patch
# User Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
# Date 1230143250 0
# Node ID 5478b71d59c63a22730cd3ed5133f49de0f7d5ee
# Parent  7bd3f6af5679e8e8afa15077cf04e2e8645fc7a0
* subr.el (chmod): New defalias for set-file-modes.

* files.texi (Misc File Ops): Mention chmod as an alias for
set-file-modes.

diff -r 7bd3f6af5679 -r 5478b71d59c6 doc/emacs/ChangeLog
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog	Wed Dec 24 18:01:06 2008 +0000
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog	Wed Dec 24 18:27:30 2008 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-12-24  Dan Nicolaescu  <dann@ics.uci.edu>
+
+	* files.texi (Misc File Ops): Mention chmod as an alias for
+	set-file-modes.
+
 2008-12-24  Martin Rudalics  <rudalics@gmx.at>
 
 	* help.texi (Help): Fix typos and reword.
diff -r 7bd3f6af5679 -r 5478b71d59c6 doc/emacs/files.texi
--- a/doc/emacs/files.texi	Wed Dec 24 18:01:06 2008 +0000
+++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi	Wed Dec 24 18:27:30 2008 +0000
@@ -1588,7 +1588,8 @@
 modes using the same symbolic or octal format accepted by the
 @command{chmod} command; for instance, @samp{u+x} means to add
 execution permission for the user who owns the file.  It has no effect
-on operating systems that do not support file modes.
+on operating systems that do not support file modes.  @code{chmod} is a
+convenience alias for this function.
 
 @node Compressed Files
 @section Accessing Compressed Files
diff -r 7bd3f6af5679 -r 5478b71d59c6 etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Wed Dec 24 18:01:06 2008 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Wed Dec 24 18:27:30 2008 +0000
@@ -542,7 +542,8 @@
 +++
 *** The new command `set-file-modes' allows to set file's mode bits.
 The mode bits can be specified in symbolic notation, like with GNU
-Coreutils, in addition to an octal number.
+Coreutils, in addition to an octal number.  `chmod' is a new
+convenience alias for this function.
 
 *** `next-error-recenter' specifies how next-error should recenter the
 visited source file.  Its value can be a number (for example, 0 for
diff -r 7bd3f6af5679 -r 5478b71d59c6 lisp/ChangeLog
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog	Wed Dec 24 18:01:06 2008 +0000
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog	Wed Dec 24 18:27:30 2008 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-12-24  Dan Nicolaescu  <dann@ics.uci.edu>
+
+	* subr.el (chmod): New defalias for set-file-modes.
+
 2008-12-23  Juri Linkov  <juri@jurta.org>
 
 	* isearch.el (isearch-filter-predicate, isearch-search): Replace
diff -r 7bd3f6af5679 -r 5478b71d59c6 lisp/subr.el
--- a/lisp/subr.el	Wed Dec 24 18:01:06 2008 +0000
+++ b/lisp/subr.el	Wed Dec 24 18:27:30 2008 +0000
@@ -1076,6 +1076,7 @@
 (defalias 'search-backward-regexp (symbol-function 're-search-backward))
 (defalias 'int-to-string 'number-to-string)
 (defalias 'store-match-data 'set-match-data)
+(defalias 'chmod 'set-file-modes)
 ;; These are the XEmacs names:
 (defalias 'point-at-eol 'line-end-position)
 (defalias 'point-at-bol 'line-beginning-position)