From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Delete marked files from dired Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:16:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fufi9hx6.fsf@debian.uxu> <87mv9og4c5.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1496528263 4286 195.159.176.226 (3 Jun 2017 22:17:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 22:17:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 04 00:17:37 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 1dHHMX-0000bh-Hp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:17:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHHMZ-0006eA-Is for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:17:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47149) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHHM8-0006e5-Bi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:17:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHHM5-0001kX-6R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52600 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dHHM5-0001kD-0A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dHHLw-0007GV-Gp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:17:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:jQy+Pxllc7txhOjOT+QIsNasEjk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:113348 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe wrote: > I agree with Emanuel's suggestion The "* s D" > is quicker. Come to think of it, perhaps it is good it's not *too* quick! I once deleted a file accidentally. It wasn't terribly important, just complete access to Fort Knox. Still, it bothered me at the time having lost that file... > Also, you do not need to re-map "D". In Dired > "D" is mapped to dired-do-delete by default. Oh, yeah? And you don't think for such an important key, setting it up twice can be a virtue? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573