bug#38039: 27.0.50; Dired kill associated buffers matching extension

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Jeff Spencer <jeffspencerd@gmail.com> writes:

> A feature enhancement that is related to this is that I would like to be able to set
> the file extensions that would automatically be deleted. Then for the
> other file extensions confirm before deleting the buffers. I see
> possiblyl changing dired-clean-confirm-killing-deleted-buffers to
> allowing three differnt options. One is nil meaning don't ask and
> automatically kill everything. One is t meaning confirm all buffers. The
> last is a list like '(.txt .pdf)) that will allow these extensions to
> automatically be killed but all others it will ask. But the problem with
> this is the dired and sub-directory killing part. If you specify a list,
> I think there needs a seperate variable that you can control the dired
> buffer killing from the regular buffer killing. 

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

In my opinion, this would require so much customisation that I don't
think it's a feature that many people would use.  So I'm closing this as
a "wontfix".

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