* bug#38729: 26.1; dired-flag-file-deletion should just skip over .. and .
@ 2019-12-24 7:24 Trent W. Buck
2022-05-23 10:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Trent W. Buck @ 2019-12-24 7:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 38729
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 ‘.’ or ‘..’
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 ‘.’ or ‘..’
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.
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@ 2022-05-23 10:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-27 15:37 ` Trent W. Buck
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2022-05-23 10:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Trent W. Buck; +Cc: 38729
trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes:
> Can you just make d (dired-do-flagged-delete) skip over the . and
> .. lines, since you can never delete them?
I've now done this in Emacs 29, and I wondered whether all marking
commands should, but I guess not. It's somewhat inconsistent --
dired-mark-files-in-region (which happens when you drag an area with the
mouse) skips the dot files for all marks, but I guess nobody complains
about that inconsistency.
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* bug#38729: 26.1; dired-flag-file-deletion should just skip over .. and .
2022-05-23 10:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2022-05-27 15:37 ` Trent W. Buck
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Trent W. Buck @ 2022-05-27 15:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 38729
Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> trentbuck@gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes:
>
> > Can you just make d (dired-do-flagged-delete) skip over the . and
> > .. lines, since you can never delete them?
>
> I've now done this in Emacs 29, and I wondered whether all marking
> commands should, but I guess not. It's somewhat inconsistent --
> dired-mark-files-in-region (which happens when you drag an area with the
> mouse) skips the dot files for all marks, but I guess nobody complains
> about that inconsistency.
I never use a mouse, so I wouldn't have noticed :-)
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