From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: safe delete with dired?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:19:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874pf4kavy.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3a939056-25bb-4ce8-a55a-6438947ee438@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com
"metaperl.com" <metaperl@gmail.com> writes:
> is there some way for dired to simply move the files marked via "d" to
> a directory instead of actually deleting them?
You can change the marks from "D" to "*" using "* c" and then operate on
them as regularly marked files. The trick is to automate that (or you
could just start with marking them "m" instead of marking them with D).
Joel
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2007-11-29 21:07 safe delete with dired? metaperl.com
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