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X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:173700 Archived-At: When you do this: emacs -Q -nw . C-n # until you reach the ".." line d # d runs the command dired-flag-file-deletion x # x runs the command dired-do-flagged-delete Then you get Cannot operate on =E2=80=98.=E2=80=99 or =E2=80=98..=E2=80=99 Which is entirely reasonable and obvious. What just happened to me was I had sorted a directory by time, scrolled past the first page of recent files, then did C-u 100000 d x to delete all the remaining files. And of course I got Cannot operate on =E2=80=98.=E2=80=99 or =E2=80=98..=E2=80=99 So then I had to find . and/or .. in the list and use u (dired-unmark) before I could do x (dired-do-flagged-delete). This was a minor annoyance. Can you just make d (dired-do-flagged-delete) skip over the . and .. lines, since you can never delete them? Note that m (dired-mark) should remain as-is, since e.g. "m ! du -s RET" works fine on . and .. special lines.