dired-mode works lacks support of common tasks

dired-mode works lacks support of common tasks

[Paul Pogonyshev]

It seems there is no simple way to copy or delete (recursively) a
directory in dired mode.  Is it intentional for some reason?  I doubt
it is in any way difficult to implement.

What i think would be logical is when i hit C on a directory, Emacs
automatically determines that it needs to do a recursive copy and
doesn't even bother asking me anything.  And the same for d, x (maybe
with a more impressive confirmation prompt, since recursive deletion
of a directory is not something one would like to do accidentially).

Paul Pogonyshev

Re: dired-mode works lacks support of common tasks

[Johan Bockgård]

Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:

> It seems there is no simple way to copy or delete (recursively) a
> directory in dired mode.

There is.

,----[ C-h v dired-recursive-copies RET ]
| dired-recursive-copies's value is nil
| 
| Documentation:
| *Decide whether recursive copies are allowed.
| Nil means no recursive copies.
| `always' means copy recursively without asking.
| `top' means ask for each directory at top level.
| Anything else means ask for each directory.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Defined in `dired-aux'.
`----

,----[ C-h v dired-recursive-deletes RET ]
| dired-recursive-deletes's value is nil
| 
| Documentation:
| *Decide whether recursive deletes are allowed.
| Nil means no recursive deletes.
| `always' means delete recursively without asking.  This is DANGEROUS!
| `top' means ask for each directory at top level, but delete its subdirectories
| without asking.
| Anything else means ask for each directory.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Defined in `dired'.
`----

-- 
Johan Bockgård