From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dave@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How delete a not empty directory in the Dired buffer? Date: 01 Oct 2004 13:35:15 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <81is9ucpf0.fsf@adboyd.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096652468 30991 80.91.229.6 (1 Oct 2004 17:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 01 19:40:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CDROq-0004wl-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:40:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CDRVH-000258-3s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CDRV8-00024a-Cn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:47:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CDRV8-00024O-0G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:47:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CDRV7-00024L-TO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:47:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CDROM-0002im-Is for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CDROL-0004zs-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:40:25 +0200 Original-Received: from wbar5.tampa1-4-11-125-246.dsl-verizon.net ([4.11.125.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:40:25 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by wbar5.tampa1-4-11-125-246.dsl-verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:40:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: wbar5.tampa1-4-11-125-246.dsl-verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20982 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20982 Daniel L Elliott writes: > I'm sorry, what does 'top signify? > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:39:34 +0800, zrr wrote: > > > (setq dired-recursive-copies 'top) > > (setq dired-recursive-deletes 'top) *Decide whether recursive deletes are allowed. nil means no recursive deletes. `always' means delete recursively without asking. This is DANGEROUS! `top' means ask for each directory at top level, but delete its subdirectories without asking. Anything else means ask for each directory.