From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:02:19 +0200 Message-ID: <8760fvu2es.fsf@jane> References: <84fufjnefh.fsf@tm6592> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497643321 20714 195.159.176.226 (16 Jun 2017 20:02:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:02:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: notbob Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 16 22:01:57 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 1dLxRN-00058j-Eq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:01:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60604 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLxRS-0004LW-OF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLxQw-0004KJ-EL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLxQt-0002Vf-DF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:01:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:32791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLxQt-0002Vb-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CEDE69C5; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:01:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9JB2lwXh2RXk; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:01:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (static-dwadziewiec-jedenpiec7.echostar.pl [109.232.29.157]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C62A9E662D; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 22:01:17 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:113495 Archived-At: On 2017-06-16, at 17:53, notbob wrote: > OK, my bad. Turns out you gotta be IN dired mode fer the variable to > show up. I used another xterm to put me in an non-dired mode of emacs > and that does NOT work. Now all I gotta do is learn how the > "customize" screen works. Thank you. ;) Not exactly. The variable is defined in dired.el, and so is not defined in Emacs until this file is actually loaded, e.g. by means of (require 'dired) or by using an autoloaded command (e.g. M-x dired, aka C-x d). You may try putting (require 'dired) in your init.el (or just saying M-: (require 'dired)) - the variable will be there for you to customize without starting dired even once. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski