Re: Delete marked files from dired

[notbob]

On 2017-06-16, notbob <notbob@nothome.com> wrote:

> On 2017-06-15, Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> M-x customize-variable RET dired-recursive-deletes RET
>
> The first part of yer solution works, but not the 2nd part.  I get a
> response of "[No match]".  Backing up a bit and letting emacs do an
> auto-completion only yields:
>
> -----
>
> Possible completions are:
> dired-kept-versions
> dired-listing-switches
>
> -----
>
> I use slrn fer news, but emacs is my general editor.  This ona Slackware
> 14.1 box using emacs 24.3.1.  ;)

OK, my bad.  Turns out you gotta be IN dired mode fer the variable to
show up.  I used another xterm to put me in an non-dired mode of emacs
and that does NOT work.  Now all I gotta do is learn how the
"customize" screen works.  Thank you.  ;)

nb