From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:06:19 +0200 Message-ID: <8637awazzo.fsf@zoho.com> References: <84fufjnefh.fsf@tm6592> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497877645 30604 195.159.176.226 (19 Jun 2017 13:07:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:07:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 19 15:07:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMwOl-0007eE-Nj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:07:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMwOq-0000U5-Qi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48387) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMwO3-0000SU-Hl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:06:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMwO0-0007T8-F1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:06:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39056 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dMwO0-0007Rz-9R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:06:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dMwNp-0004xi-PA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:06:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:VR3XbsZ/TtAC1pX5t+JnzAAnBlU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113527 Archived-At: Ralf Fassel wrote: > Might be easier to just put > > (setq dired-recursive-deletes 'always) > > in your .emacs (maybe accompanied by a comment > indicating what this does) You could, but "recursive" as in recursion or recursive descent is a good word to know. Many of the shell tools has an option to do whatever recursively, and I'd say drill down a directory hierarchy is the most common use case. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573