From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: setq dired-clean-up-buffers-too nil recommended for fumblefingers Date: 07 Apr 2002 14:27:29 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: jidanni@yahoo.com.tw NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018193066 5338 127.0.0.1 (7 Apr 2002 15:24:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:24:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16uEWo-0001Nz-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 17:24:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uEWj-0000y4-00; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 11:24:21 -0400 Original-Received: from dfw7-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.106]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uETy-0000mb-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2002 11:21:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by dfw7sosrv11.alter.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQmjon14065 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:21:29 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 17:21:28 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 17:21:28 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 61-227-44-126.hinet-ip.hinet.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 24 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61-227-44-126.hinet-ip.hinet.net (61.227.44.126) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1018192888 31775381 61.227.44.126 (16 [99749]) X-Orig-Path: localhost.localdomain!nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:475 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:475 Just thought you might be interested in user failure a/k/a pilot error reports: I had just marked the wrong file for deletion in dired, hit x and "yes" all before realizing I had hit the wrong file. To top it off, emacs had helpfully asked me if I also wanted to delete the buffer of that file, to which I of course answered y. By the time the smoke had all cleared, my only hope, short of some kind of disk dump technology, was to look in ~/.backups, where I only found a several hours old copy. OK, I will turn this off, under physician's recommendation: dired-clean-up-buffers-too's value is t Documentation: *Non-nil means offer to kill buffers visiting files and dirs deleted in dired. [ought to be mentioned when we do C-h k x in dired] By the way, from the name of the variable it seems that t should mean just do it, "'ask" should mean "offer", and nil should mean don't do it. Anyway, by turning it off maybe I will give fumblefingers me a second chance when I blow away another file next time. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780