From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired Date: 15 Jun 2017 01:34:13 GMT Message-ID: References: <84fufjnefh.fsf@tm6592> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497490542 13844 195.159.176.226 (15 Jun 2017 01:35:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 01:35:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 15 03:35:38 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 1dLJhB-0003LZ-UJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2017 03:35:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLJhH-00054P-6G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:35:43 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: individual.net HPT+ju8IAdcOMmZ7BAyurgr3PSKDTNnHPTgXq1JNEhTh5CksgF Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dqw8lv0bNjFlq6a9lvYBme0og0U= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219137 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:113466 Archived-At: On 2017-06-15, notbob wrote: > On 2017-06-02, notbob wrote: >> On 2017-06-02, Marco Wahl wrote: >>> *c*Dx > This still works, perfectly, but now, how do I "force" delete, so I > don't hafta answer y/n fer all recursive (filled) directories? ;) I found this: "You can delete empty directories just like other files, but normally Dired cannot delete directories that are nonempty. If the variable dired-recursive-deletes is non-nil, then Dired can delete nonempty directories including all their contents. That can be somewhat risky." So, how do I set the above named variable or, better yet, how do I invoke it w/o changing my emacs config file? I've got some changes in my ~/.emacs file, but I don't really understand 'em all. They were suggestions by others, much like this Q. ;) nb --not the sharpest knife in the emacs drawer