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On 2017-06-15, Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> wrote:

> M-x customize-variable RET dired-recursive-deletes RET

The first part of yer solution works, but not the 2nd part.  I get a
response of "[No match]".  Backing up a bit and letting emacs do an
auto-completion only yields:

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Possible completions are:
dired-kept-versions
dired-listing-switches

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I use slrn fer news, but emacs is my general editor.  This ona Slackware
14.1 box using emacs 24.3.1.  ;)

nb