From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: doc string of dired-do-kill-lines, "killing" lines in Dired Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:01:43 -0800 Message-ID: <003801c87e54$1961eda0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204675324 14293 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 00:02:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:02:04 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 01:02:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWh5Z-00083U-3V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:02:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWh52-0008Lt-2z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWh4w-0008LM-Tp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWh4t-0008KW-Bh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWh4t-0008KT-34 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWh4r-0007FG-9T for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:01:46 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw2.us.oracle.com (agmgw2.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.213]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m2501gKa023344 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:01:43 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m248k0pL003349 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:01:42 -0700 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3599900111204675300; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:01:40 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.88.200) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:01:39 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Ach+VBjVMiRJ9YRjTW2cRtZZTWIQgQ== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17647 Archived-At: 1. The last two sentences seem redundant, to me: If you use this command with a prefix argument to kill the line for a file that is a directory, which you have inserted in the Dired buffer as a subdirectory, then it deletes that subdirectory from the buffer as well. To kill an entire subdirectory (without killing its line in the parent directory), go to its directory header line and use this command with a prefix argument (the value does not matter). These sentences both seem to be saying only that `C-u k' on a subdir header line deletes the subdir listing (all files). Just say that (once). 2. Also, the text in that doc string and elsewhere regarding "killing" lines in Dired should not speak of "killing" (even though this command is misnamed this way). The kill-ring is not affected in any way, AFAIK. For example: Emacs manual nodes Subdir Switches and Dired Updating. In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'