bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)

[Tino Calancha]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
>> Cc: 27940@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:25:49 +0900
>> 
>> > dired-do-flagged-delete and me interaction:
>> > Recursively delete dcepc? (yes or no) yes
>> > Recursively delete emmpc? (yes or no) yes
>> > Recursively delete zpspc? (yes or no) yes
>> > Recursively delete dgcpc? (yes or no) yes
>> >
>> > Wouldn't it be nice if there was instead:
>> > Recursively delete dgcpc? (yes, no, all, quit)
>> >
>> > Yes, if before we started we set the variables we needn't be asked all
>> > those questions.
>> >
>> > But now *midway* through the list, we decide we would like no more
>> > question, there should be a way, without needing to quit and start over,
>> > even if doing that isn't so bad.
>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>> You can already quit with '\C-g'.
>> Concerning accept 'all' in the prompt, i am not sure:
>> it's a bit dangerous operation.
>> 
>> In the other hand:
>> 1) Customize `dired-recursive-deletes' to value 'always.
>> 2) Do the deletion.
>> 3) Set back `dired-recursive-deletes' to its original value.
>
> Actually, I think the value he wants is 'top'.
The he would be prompted the 34 times all over.  I think the OP
wants 'always (like Bon Jovi).

> I don't object to accepting something like "!" to mean "all", I
> believe we already have a few features that do this, and the
> implementation should be simple, I think.  (Creeping featurism, I
> know, but what else did you expect from users who have no real bugs to
> report? ;-)
>
>> How about if `dired-do-delete' called interactively with 2 prefices
>> performs recursive deletions?
>> Eli?
>
> Sounds too cumbersome to me.
Updated patch.  Now it accepts answers: y, n, !, q
(as the OP suggested)
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commit 90e4eb9fa1b708bab87844160371ec9ce439ab91
Author: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 4 18:17:51 2017 +0900

    dired-do-delete: Allow to delete dirs recursively
    
    * lisp/dired.el (dired-delete-file): Accept 2 additional answers:
    '!', to delete all directories recursively and no prompt anymore.
    'q', to cancel the directry deletions (Bug#27940).
    (dired-do-flagged-delete): Bind locally dired-recursive-deletes
    so that we can overwrite its global value.
    Wrapp the loop within a catch '--delete-cancel to catch when
    the user abort the directtry deletion.

diff --git a/lisp/dired.el b/lisp/dired.el
index 24759c6c9b..278acc2cf5 100644
--- a/lisp/dired.el
+++ b/lisp/dired.el
@@ -2990,23 +2990,33 @@ dired-delete-file
 
 TRASH non-nil means to trash the file instead of deleting, provided
 `delete-by-moving-to-trash' (which see) is non-nil."
-  ;; This test is equivalent to
-  ;; (and (file-directory-p fn) (not (file-symlink-p fn)))
-  ;; but more efficient
-  (if (not (eq t (car (file-attributes file))))
-      (delete-file file trash)
-    (if (and recursive
-            (directory-files file t dired-re-no-dot) ; Not empty.
-            (or (eq recursive 'always)
-                (yes-or-no-p (format "Recursively %s %s? "
-                                     (if (and trash
-                                              delete-by-moving-to-trash)
-                                         "trash"
-                                       "delete")
-                                     (dired-make-relative file)))))
-       (if (eq recursive 'top) (setq recursive 'always)) ; Don't ask again.
-      (setq recursive nil))
-    (delete-directory file recursive trash)))
+       ;; This test is equivalent to
+       ;; (and (file-directory-p fn) (not (file-symlink-p fn)))
+       ;; but more efficient
+       (if (not (eq t (car (file-attributes file))))
+           (delete-file file trash)
+         (let* ((valid-answers (list "y" "n" "!" "q"))
+                (answer "")
+                (input-fn (lambda ()
+                            (setq answer
+                                  (completing-read (format "Recursively %s %s? 
[y, n, !, q] "
+                                                          (if (and trash
+                                                                   
delete-by-moving-to-trash)
+                                                              "trash"
+                                                            "delete")
+                                                          (dired-make-relative 
file))
+                                                   valid-answers nil t)))))
+           (if (and recursive
+                   (directory-files file t dired-re-no-dot) ; Not empty.
+                   (eq recursive 'always))
+              (if (eq recursive 'top) (setq recursive 'always)) ; Don't ask 
again.
+             ;; Otherwise prompt user:
+             (while (string= "" answer) (funcall input-fn))
+             (pcase answer
+               ('"!" (setq recursive 'always dired-recursive-deletes 
recursive))
+               ('"y" (if (eq recursive 'top) (setq recursive 'always)))
+               ('"q" (keyboard-quit))))
+           (delete-directory file recursive trash))))
 
 (defun dired-do-flagged-delete (&optional nomessage)
   "In Dired, delete the files flagged for deletion.
@@ -3055,6 +3065,9 @@ dired-internal-do-deletions
   (let* ((files (mapcar #'car l))
         (count (length l))
         (succ 0)
+        ;; Bind `dired-recursive-deletes' so that we can change it
+        ;; locally according with the user answer within `dired-delete-file'.
+        (dired-recursive-deletes dired-recursive-deletes)
         (trashing (and trash delete-by-moving-to-trash)))
     ;; canonicalize file list for pop up
     (setq files (nreverse (mapcar #'dired-make-relative files)))
@@ -3064,6 +3077,7 @@ dired-internal-do-deletions
                 (if trashing "Trash" "Delete")
                 (dired-mark-prompt arg files)))
        (save-excursion
+          (catch '--delete-cancel
          (let ((progress-reporter
                 (make-progress-reporter
                  (if trashing "Trashing..." "Deleting...")
@@ -3081,6 +3095,7 @@ dired-internal-do-deletions
                      (dired-fun-in-all-buffers
                       (file-name-directory fn) (file-name-nondirectory fn)
                       #'dired-delete-entry fn))
+                  (quit (throw '--delete-cancel (message "OK, canceled")))
                  (error ;; catch errors from failed deletions
                   (dired-log "%s\n" err)
                   (setq failures (cons (car (car l)) failures)))))
@@ -3091,7 +3106,7 @@ dired-internal-do-deletions
               (format "%d of %d deletion%s failed"
                       (length failures) count
                       (dired-plural-s count))
-              failures))))
+              failures)))))
       (message "(No deletions performed)")))
   (dired-move-to-filename))
 
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