From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Hegbloom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: deleting directories. Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:38:17 -0600 Message-ID: <1176928697.14001.83.camel@oaktree.lan> References: <4C17B77B-E596-4E42-8341-3E050AE56FA8@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176928726 31491 80.91.229.12 (18 Apr 2007 20:38:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-help gnu gnu To: Livin Stephen Sharma Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 18 22:38:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HeGvF-0007MU-Kn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:38:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HeH07-0000sF-Ay for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:43:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HeGzs-0000rM-Lf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HeGzr-0000qv-9p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HeGzr-0000qs-2m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:43:23 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HeGuy-0000BM-HH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s17so315814wxc for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:38:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=gF40Kj5kbqeKMvnsm29lPGqkjoFImTzPrY2pGlmPuX1ViXEjIOBSPAp4f3nw9I/7ze1TDpZ+n0FDB9zI25WOpxUuaUXv6urLu789xW1ejTBtkjQHehfaCwcEAZC3O2cm3t43hGTthzgOmwMy0Yb3DI2tP2IzZZGNmCjDniStghg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=PE40fvVivxcdZ2iInC8yHAlWarXnJi5jIfhhbV9KFlF+TWo2ADZlS2R7yJDHXXLJxKBCKZwpkYzP1OQPPI4Nddz0ZQfcWWsx7tWb9ZzfRBjcxCAKzErrnu0ahNp6lotpihtCrJuZdmAWR6y4QO1u2IU2Pdh/Tctug0ILqqwkNiE= Original-Received: by 10.90.115.4 with SMTP id n4mr1112087agc.1176928700159; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:38:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ?192.168.1.64? ( [67.166.69.81]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 32sm1384492aga.2007.04.18.13.38.19; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:38:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C17B77B-E596-4E42-8341-3E050AE56FA8@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42802 Archived-At: I don't trust recursive delete by anything but "rm -rf" because once a bug in the XEmacs dired burned me really bad. Recursive delete was implement entirely in Emacs Lisp, and it followed symlinks instead of removing the symlink itself. It escaped the tree I was removing and...