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: 16 Jun 2017 15:53:36 GMT Message-ID: References: <84fufjnefh.fsf@tm6592> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497628705 17002 195.159.176.226 (16 Jun 2017 15:58:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:58:25 +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 Fri Jun 16 17:58:21 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 1dLtdd-0004D7-2M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:58:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59547 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLtdi-0002G6-9v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:58:26 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Y6fTKMKVZRi7n6EdSTZbdQW4Z98ogyE0LkjBSXEq1pPrUm3Sf5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:LtODYfaHrN4n2zPLBn3uxyyXODM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219140 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:113492 Archived-At: On 2017-06-16, notbob wrote: > On 2017-06-15, Ralf Fassel 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: > > ----- > > Possible completions are: > dired-kept-versions > dired-listing-switches > > ----- > > I use slrn fer news, but emacs is my general editor. This ona Slackware > 14.1 box using emacs 24.3.1. ;) 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. ;) nb