From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: doc string of dired-do-kill-lines, "killing" lines in Dired Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:53:27 +0100 Message-ID: References: <003801c87e54$1961eda0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204678424 23177 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 00:53:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:53:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 01:54:11 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 1JWhtX-0005pz-Us for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:54:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWht0-00077O-PL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWhsx-00077I-4z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:53:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWhsv-000776-LA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:53:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWhsv-000773-IO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15] helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWhsu-0000SA-Vb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (relay-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD2F039086; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:53:27 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: --Hello, POLICE? I"ve got ABBOTT & COSTELLO here on suspicion of HIGHWAY ROBBERY!! In-Reply-To: <003801c87e54$1961eda0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue\, 4 Mar 2008 16\:01\:43 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) 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:17651 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > 1. The last two sentences seem redundant, to me: > =20 > 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). > =20 > 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). They are two different operations, the latter deleting one line less. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."