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: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:13:47 +0200 Message-ID: <8664668904.fsf@lola.quinscape.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 1180811641 19109 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2007 19:14:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kevin Rodgers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 02 21:13:58 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 1HuZ2z-0004ON-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:13:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuZ2y-0003Aa-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuZ2v-0003AV-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuZ2s-0003AG-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuZ2s-0003AD-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from pc3.berlin.powerweb.de ([62.67.228.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuZ2s-0002hd-02 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from quinscape.de (dslnet.212-29-44.ip210.dokom.de [212.29.44.210] (may be forged)) by pc3.berlin.powerweb.de (8.9.3p3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA13971 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:13:36 +0200 X-Delivered-To: Original-Received: (qmail 15843 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2007 19:13:47 -0000 Original-Received: from dslb-084-061-016-061.pools.arcor-ip.net (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([84.61.16.61]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 2 Jun 2007 19:13:47 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 655268F832; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:13:47 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Sat\, 02 Jun 2007 10\:02\:15 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (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:72068 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers writes: > Richard Stallman wrote: >> 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. > > I'm uneasy about `top' vs. t as the default: when I'm prompted > "Recursive delete of SUBDIR? ", I expect that if I answer "yes" > that I'll be prompted for SUBDIR's subdirectories as well. That is not taking issue with the default but rather with the prompt. What kind of prompt would make you expect the right thing? -- David Kastrup