I submited the prior bug request Dired dired-clean-up-after-deletion bug. 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.