Re: [PATCH] Treat :tangle-mode as an octal value not integer

[Jeremy Cowgar]

On 2021-09-29 07:07, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 11:29:06AM +0200, Gyro Funch wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I don't know if it would ever be ambiguous, but could :tangle-mode
> > have the ability to infer if it were integer- or octal-format based
> > on checking against 'reasonable' permission settings in octal
> > notation?
>
> To me, that sounds rather scary. But I'm a timid person :-)

To keep things from breaking, what if the system were smart and
if it sees #o prefix, it then parses as an octal, otherwise it keeps
it's current behavior?

Then add that to the docs. I understand about backwards compatibility
and that was my greatest fear with this patch when creating it.

Was just using org-babel-tangle for configuration files and had some
that I wanted to make 0700 and 0600. I soon learned, that didn't work
out as planned :-)

- Jeremy