From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired mode recursive delete Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:03:01 +0200 Message-ID: <853b1cz2pm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87d50i42h3.fsf@escher.local.home> <85veea18r6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180674210 15169 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2007 05:03:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 05:03:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen.Berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 01 07:03:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HtzIJ-0006Ie-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:03:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HtzII-0007x2-7l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HtzID-0007si-BG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HtzIA-0007mT-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HtzIA-0007ll-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HtzI6-0008V1-Df; Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.15]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A9A1F5290; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:03:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.42]) by mail-in-03-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766292D3CC3; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:03:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-015-096.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.15.96]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE8036E866; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:03:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 55FFE1C3E046; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:03:02 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu\, 31 May 2007 18\:31\:48 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72020 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Setting it to t instead will not cause _any_ action without asking for > individual confirmation for every non-empty directory. It seems like > quite a safe setting (whereas the original setting is not helpful in > any situation I can think of). > > My personal setting is 'top which is certainly more convenient than t > but might be considered too drastic as a default setting by some. > > I think that `top' would be an ok default. > Let's change the default in the trunk. Done. Also for dired-recursive-copies (it seems pointless to have that setting more timid than that for deletion). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum