From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Yuri Khan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 11:55:15 +0700 Message-ID: References: <868tlbqp8j.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496379369 25842 195.159.176.226 (2 Jun 2017 04:56:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 04:56:09 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 02 06:56:04 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 1dGed1-0006Vf-WC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 06:56:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGed7-00042l-Dz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGecf-00042g-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGecd-0003vd-KZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::234]:36332) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGecd-0003vN-EJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 00:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wm0-x234.google.com with SMTP id 7so11599008wmo.1 for ; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:55:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to; bh=UC03j8PDl4RTNGLS4ll2umRGqPvAs3/ea4fNIRr0Gvk=; b=DuYZWYWu2vXjTZbND/75Kg7pmyJFBFxp42+vulSsQL6WsJw3fSyZN6CcBHLX4K4azT nDsyP2z44qulylnn3jR9/+irK7TW349T5c4anQRxsRJGS/jj6n7SBCotvKoyThgwr2ro 8pjg5dNsGFt8PDaA6AS9SkSlvHcbIS3RQtfj7xjVbPmjCrsS3C/DoxlHXa0gegLNpO0Q 5kwFS4Pg3h2praJtcZ6XYLC9su5XelXq16PAellvXP3AvyJ08N91GXmxcqDfzwBfFwFF FraBy0NWuUQHCwrgNStRzUGBV6ZxsME9Mi1f3T8TvhLOQYC8u+5Cvb2ssD56TfT0IfqR y45Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=UC03j8PDl4RTNGLS4ll2umRGqPvAs3/ea4fNIRr0Gvk=; b=dJjl5etlkNXC1wNWkYz1/Zq815uLt7oTQUQ1l7LabOPYoIuhxI3yYE4GVzH1vRnVGM 4PI1MB59GzDy05LmS9aVByFLRi3ugwHx8VCa/OGgdQl2XTUeMnk8zSZGprj82i6j+YU2 x9K870SGI0PjVTljGr0ayyK4ZM2ASCTIWbeRg930dPlcf0akG8C235gHTDaO4NuQv68X FSzyEUuqu7RBiNmKp6dHyFOE46Awa2hplbTY9BDD55hVg3Rk94VvwJXeOZMzSO+iCxFp ucB3vPQRWaxD9l/0toNlIJZqnMEhOrpGDrH2HyirUA9OBvgRZc2CqjEGHXQO/tlr0dCY B7mg== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcDVsvF/3Duwr9Dc0EZud/6Z7ClbVBE6Z4MImUP4NnaTWqfyDhn/ JcG6Q92X2zVkrT0u3NEaHQBvuPNL8A== X-Received: by 10.28.7.16 with SMTP id 16mr1543501wmh.16.1496379336474; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:55:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.164.93 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jun 2017 21:55:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: JlhoK0WDk0MkTqKsnkENDizAAyk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::234 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:113322 Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:29 AM, Emanuel Berg 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?