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Re: dired mode recursive delete
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David Kastrup |
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Re: dired mode recursive delete |
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Wed, 30 May 2007 20:11:57 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:36:03 -0400 Neal Becker <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> marking a directory D doesn't work in dired. (The xemacs version does)
>
> Do you have dired-recursive-deletes set to nil?
Actually, I would argue that nil is not a useful default for this
option: it keeps people unaware that there is a way to bypass the
default behavior of single-minded failure.
Setting it to t instead will not cause _any_ action without asking for
individual confirmation for every non-empty directory. It seems like
quite a safe setting (whereas the original setting is not helpful in
any situation I can think of).
My personal setting is 'top which is certainly more convenient than t
but might be considered too drastic as a default setting by some.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum