Re: Delete marked files from dired

[Emanuel Berg]

Ralf Fassel wrote:

> Might be easier to just put
>
>   (setq dired-recursive-deletes 'always)
>
> in your .emacs (maybe accompanied by a comment
> indicating what this does)

You could, but "recursive" as in recursion or
recursive descent is a good word to know.

Many of the shell tools has an option to do
whatever recursively, and I'd say drill down
a directory hierarchy is the most common
use case.

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