Re: dired mode recursive delete

[Kevin Rodgers]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     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.
>
> I think that `top' would be an ok default.
> Let's change the default in the trunk.

I'm uneasy about `top' vs. t as the default: when I'm prompted 
"Recursive delete of SUBDIR? ", I expect that if I answer "yes"
that I'll be prompted for SUBDIR's subdirectories as well.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA