From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-kill-tree Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:27:06 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040606212706.GA10671@fencepost> References: <200406062119.i56LJ3E01005@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086557258 25442 80.91.224.253 (6 Jun 2004 21:27:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 21:27:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 06 23:27:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BX5Ay-0007GM-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:27:32 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BX5Ay-0008WD-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:27:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BX5BT-0005cz-UG for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BX5BR-0005cu-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BX5BP-0005ch-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:28:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BX5BP-0005ce-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BX5AY-0000OD-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BX5AY-0003Bx-2g; Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:27:06 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406062119.i56LJ3E01005@raven.dms.auburn.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:24621 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:24621 On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 04:19:03PM -0500, Luc Teirlinck wrote: > But you have to understand that this assumes that DIRNAME is a > directory name and not a directory file name. Otherwise, DIRNAME _is_ > killed. Anybody having taken any look at the Dired Elisp code will > probably have no trouble guessing this implicit assumption. Is there a (reasonable) reason for this rather odd behavior? -miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist]