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* safe delete with dired?
@ 2007-11-29 21:07 metaperl.com
  2007-11-29 21:19 ` Joel J. Adamson
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From: metaperl.com @ 2007-11-29 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
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is there some way for dired to simply move the files marked via "d" to
a directory instead of actually deleting them?

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* Re: safe delete with dired?
  2007-11-29 21:07 safe delete with dired? metaperl.com
@ 2007-11-29 21:19 ` Joel J. Adamson
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From: Joel J. Adamson @ 2007-11-29 21:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

"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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