From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:15:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87mv9og4c5.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87fufi9hx6.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496524594 24674 195.159.176.226 (3 Jun 2017 21:16:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 21:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 03 23:16:28 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 1dHGPL-00069I-S7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 23:16:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54862 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHGPR-0002Xu-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39616) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHGOy-0002Xn-Uo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHGOu-00057s-OI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.16]:50805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHGOu-00056Q-HI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail02.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.11]) by outbound-smtp03.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5979098D33 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2017 21:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 8499 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2017 21:15:56 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[86.180.88.48]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 3 Jun 2017 21:15:56 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87fufi9hx6.fsf@debian.uxu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:52:05 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 81.17.249.16 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:113347 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > notbob writes: > >>> *c*Dx This is change the * marks to D marks (D for >>> deletion). Then execute (x). >> >> Works like a champ! Thank you, so much, Marco. ;) > > Still, you don't need it with `dired-do-delete'. > Bind it to a key, say D, and you can do > > * s D > > With this suggestion, it'd be > > * s * c * D x I agree with Emanuel's suggestion The "* s D" is quicker. Also, you do not need to re-map "D". In Dired "D" is mapped to dired-do-delete by default. BR, Robert Thorpe