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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 11:55:15 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8WMSWf=N+TpiBRLomDJa19gtyrRJn4LygT-ectgNZKLoA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw.86r2z3z0xz.fsf@zoho.com>

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:29 AM, Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:

> He is marking them with keys * s which is
> `dired-mark-subdir-files'. x, or
> `dired-do-flagged-delete' doesn't work then (it
> does for d, `dired-flag-file-deletion', as you
> mention) but perhaps the OP was unaware of that
> method as well so why not.

Does somebody remember the story of different marks?

I mean, Dired has D for flagging for deletion, * for marking for most
other operations, and a command to change one mark to another. Ibuffer
has D for killing and > for other operations.

Most other file managers have just one kind of mark and it works the
same way for copying, moving, and deleting.

I wonder how and why that feature evolved?



  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-02  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-01 22:10 Delete marked files from dired notbob
2017-06-01 22:24 ` John Mastro
2017-06-01 22:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-01 23:09 ` Harry Putnam
2017-06-01 23:12   ` Harry Putnam
2017-06-02  0:29   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-02  4:55     ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2017-06-02 15:40       ` Drew Adams
2017-06-02 16:34       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-06-02 21:47       ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-02 21:54         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-02  1:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-02  5:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-06-02  5:31 ` Marco Wahl
2017-06-02 15:40   ` notbob
2017-06-02 21:52     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-03 21:15       ` Robert Thorpe
2017-06-03 22:16         ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-04  4:58           ` Harry Putnam
2017-06-15  1:17     ` notbob
2017-06-15  1:34       ` notbob
2017-06-15  9:17         ` Ralf Fassel
2017-06-16 15:44           ` notbob
2017-06-16 15:53             ` notbob
2017-06-16 20:02               ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-06-19  9:21               ` Ralf Fassel
2017-06-19 13:06                 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-20  1:03                 ` notbob
2017-06-20  4:53                   ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-20 10:33                   ` Ralf Fassel
2017-06-20 12:54                     ` Emanuel Berg
2017-06-15  4:56       ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-06-15  6:29       ` Emanuel Berg

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