From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs dired: unable to view deletion list Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 16:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <618e69c8-41d2-498f-b40c-3485cfa840a0@z3g2000prz.googlegroups.com> References: <41b3b14c-d823-4715-a8d1-6ad54cb19a41@o15g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301874034 3954 80.91.229.12 (3 Apr 2011 23:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 23:40:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 01:40:27 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6WuB-0002sQ-OV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6WuB-0006ce-8P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z3g2000prz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301873869 1814 127.0.0.1 (3 Apr 2011 23:37:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 23:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z3g2000prz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186478 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:80594 Archived-At: On Apr 3, 2:01=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Xah Lee > > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:17:46 -0700 (PDT) > > > this seems to be a UI bug. > > No, it's a feature ;-) > > > in dired, type ~ to flag backup files. Then, type x to delete them. > > Dired will prompt you with =93Delete D [251 files] (y or n)=94 with a l= ist > > of files to be deleted on the top pane. > > > However, when you have more files to fit in a window, part of the list > > is not visible, and there's no way to view them. You can't page up/ > > down, cant scroll it. I haven't found a way to view it. > > > anyone got a method? > > C-M-v or M-PgDn work for me. Thanks! that's odd... something not apparent in my customization is doing it... could it dired-plus? Xah