From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:12:30 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <864lvzqp41.fsf@local.lan> References: <868tlbqp8j.fsf@local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496358946 10611 195.159.176.226 (1 Jun 2017 23:15:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 23:15:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) 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 01:15:39 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 1dGZJa-0002OG-GI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 01:15:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGZJf-0005Ka-KW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:15:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGZJD-0005KJ-Hh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:15:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGZJA-0001Dl-AJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44807 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dGZJA-0001Co-4A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:15:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dGZJ3-0000vl-2E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2017 01:15:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:y/YmuwzbJCUMpvue+vWp7pUghYc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:113319 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > notbob writes: > >> I've gotta lotta files to delete before rsyncing to a thumb drive. I >> know how to mark all files in a dir (* s) when in dired mode, but do not know how to >> delete all those marked files. Anybody? ;) > > Not sure how you are marking them, ... but if you use the d key and > them the x key you should get prompted if you want to delete the file. Sorry didn't see the other posts before posting above msg