From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired mode recursive delete Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:02:15 -0600 Message-ID: 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=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180806085 3949 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2007 17:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 17:41:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 02 19:41:24 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 1HuXbN-0005hj-1J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:41:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuXbM-0004vi-BZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:41:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuXbI-0004rN-Ds for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuXbG-0004pA-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuXbG-0004p7-KE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuXbG-00027x-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HuX0G-0007vt-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:03:01 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:03:00 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:03:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:72064 Archived-At: 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. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA