Re: `k' in Dired with inserted subdirectories.

[Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>]

Richard Stallman wrote:

       If you use this command with a prefix argument to kill the line
       for a file that is a subdirectory, and you've displayed the
       subdirectory's contents in the Dired buffer with
       \\<dired-mode-map>\\[dired-insert-subdir], it deletes that
       subdirectory from the buffer as well.

Apart from the problems I already mentioned before, this makes it
sound like it makes a difference whether you inserted them with `i'
or with the "R" switch, whereas it does not make any difference how
you inserted them.  The name "subdirectory" is used in several
docstrings in Dired as implicitly meaning "inserted subdirectory".
What about:

If you use this command with a prefix argument to kill the line for a
file that is a directory, which you have inserted in the Dired buffer
as a subdirectory, then it deletes that subdirectory from the buffer
as well.