From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: doc string of dired-do-kill-lines, "killing" lines in Dired Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:18:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: <003801c87e54$1961eda0$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> <000101c87e6f$b7d77700$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204712369 14369 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2008 10:19:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 11:19:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWqj4-0000wp-La for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:19:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWqiX-0002ft-6M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:19:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWqiP-0002fU-Rx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:19:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWqiM-0002ez-KR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWqiL-0002es-Ui for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWqiL-0005Gn-Ge for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:19:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay1.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E2032B5B; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:19:07 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Let me do my TRIBUTE to FISHNET STOCKINGS... In-Reply-To: <000101c87e6f$b7d77700$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue\, 4 Mar 2008 19\:19\:26 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17659 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> > 1. The last two sentences seem redundant, to me: >> > =20 >> > If you use this command with a prefix argument to kill the line >> > for a file that is a directory, which you have inserted in the >> > Dired buffer as a subdirectory, then it deletes that subdirectory >> > from the buffer as well. >> > To kill an entire subdirectory (without killing its line in the >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> > parent directory), go to its directory header line and use this >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> > command with a prefix argument (the value does not matter). >> > =20 >> > These sentences both seem to be saying only that `C-u k' on a subdir >> > header line deletes the subdir listing (all files). Just say that >> > (once). >>=20 >> They are two different operations, the latter deleting one line less. > > This is unclear: "the line for a file that is a directory, which you ha= ve > inserted in the Dired buffer as a subdirectory". I thought that was try= ing > to refer to a subdir header line. Where does it say "subdir header line"? Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."