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: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:53:31 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87d50i42h3.fsf@escher.local.home> <85veea18r6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <8664668904.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181721235 28835 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2007 07:53:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:53:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 13 09:53:54 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 1HyNfr-0005Vr-PG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:53:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyNfr-0008Tj-B9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyNfn-0008Te-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:53:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HyNfl-0008TS-4t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyNfk-0008TP-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:53:44 -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 1HyNfk-0003ej-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HyNfg-0003HK-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:53:40 +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 ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:53:40 +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 ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:53:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 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: <8664668904.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> 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:72740 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: > 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? Recursive delete of SUBDIR (unconditionally)? Recursive delete of SUBDIR (without confirmation)? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA