Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Cleaning functionality

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2006-02-06) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> * Reiner Steib (2006-02-06) writes:
>>>
>>> Maybe a variable `TeX-confirm-clean' with values like nil (don't
>>> ask), t (ask for every file)
>>
>> This would annoy the hell out of me. (c:  Do you think that anybody
>> would actually use this option?  In my opinion such a behavior would
>> only be asked for in very special situations which means it's probably
>> not worth the hassle implementing it.
>
> Prefix-argument?

In the design we are currently discussing that's already taken for
enabling the deletion of output files in addition to intermediate
files.  But you are right that the behavior of asking a question for
every file is a good candidate for case-by-case activation via a
prefix argument.

>>> and 'once (ask only once for each call of
>>> TeX-clean; maybe combined a listing of the files) should be added.
>>
>> Yep.
>
> Well, one can see how "x" in dired asks for confirmation.

Yes, that's what I was thinking about.  (Funny, I had to check what
`x' actually does in dired.  I usually use `m' and `D'.)

-- 
Ralf