deleting directories.

deleting directories.

[Livin Stephen Sharma]

How can I delete a directory thru emacs
  (equivalent of "M-x delete-file")


regards
  livin.stephen


[This is GNU Emacs 22.0.97.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon  
Version 1.6.0)]

Re: deleting directories.

[B. T. Raven]

Livin Stephen Sharma wrote:
> How can I delete a directory thru emacs
>  (equivalent of "M-x delete-file")
> 
> 
> regards
>  livin.stephen
> 
> 
> [This is GNU Emacs 22.0.97.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon Version 
> 1.6.0)]
> 
> 


C-x d [parent directory of the one you want to delete]
S-< or S-> to move point to line where name of directory to delete is found
D
[If there are files in the directory you try to delete and if 
dired-recursive-delete is nil, then you will get an error. ]
Safer than recursive deletion is deletion of the files in the directory 
before removal of the directory:

navigate to directory in dired with > or < or ^ and then type
m
d
[Confirm]
^
D
X
[Confirm]

All these single keystroke commands can also be invoked from the menubar in 
a dired buffer. Manybe you can also run rm from a shell but I just froze 
emacs up by trying M-! deltree junkdir. I don't quite understand why.

Ed

Re: deleting directories.

[Amy Templeton]

Livin Stephen Sharma wrote:
> How can I delete a directory thru emacs
>  (equivalent of "M-x delete-file")

I know that in my Emacs setup (22.0.97.2), there is a
delete-directory command which can be invoked via M-x.

Amy

Re: deleting directories.

[Livin Stephen Sharma]

On 18-Apr-07, at 10:16 , Amy Templeton wrote:

> Livin Stephen Sharma wrote:
>> How can I delete a directory thru emacs
>>  (equivalent of "M-x delete-file")
>
> I know that in my Emacs setup (22.0.97.2), there is a
> delete-directory command which can be invoked via M-x.

So there is!!
  I hadn't checked since moving to this build.

Thanks
  Amy

Re: deleting directories.

[Livin Stephen Sharma]

This worked..
.. but I'm unfamiliar with dired, so I'll tread carefully with this  
for a while! J

  Thanks, Ed


On 18-Apr-07, at 09:33 , B. T. Raven wrote:

> Livin Stephen Sharma wrote:
>> How can I delete a directory thru emacs
>>  (equivalent of "M-x delete-file")
>> regards
>>  livin.stephen
>> [This is GNU Emacs 22.0.97.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon  
>> Version 1.6.0)]
>
>
> C-x d [parent directory of the one you want to delete]
> S-< or S-> to move point to line where name of directory to delete  
> is found
> D
> [If there are files in the directory you try to delete and if dired- 
> recursive-delete is nil, then you will get an error. ]
> Safer than recursive deletion is deletion of the files in the  
> directory before removal of the directory:
>
> navigate to directory in dired with > or < or ^ and then type
> m
> d
> [Confirm]
> ^
> D
> X
> [Confirm]
>
> All these single keystroke commands can also be invoked from the  
> menubar in a dired buffer. Manybe you can also run rm from a shell  
> but I just froze emacs up by trying M-! deltree junkdir. I don't  
> quite understand why.
>
> Ed
>
>
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Re: deleting directories.

[Karl Hegbloom]

I don't trust recursive delete by anything but "rm -rf" because once a
bug in the XEmacs dired burned me really bad.  Recursive delete was
implement entirely in Emacs Lisp, and it followed symlinks instead of
removing the symlink itself.  It escaped the tree I was removing and...