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Re: How delete a not empty directory in the Dired buffer?


From: J. David Boyd
Subject: Re: How delete a not empty directory in the Dired buffer?
Date: 01 Oct 2004 13:35:15 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

Daniel L Elliott <dan_elliott_at_cox_dot_net@spam_is_pathetic.com> writes:

> I'm sorry, what does 'top signify?
> 
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:39:34 +0800, zrr wrote:
> 
> > (setq dired-recursive-copies 'top)
> > (setq dired-recursive-deletes 'top)



*Decide whether recursive deletes are allowed.
nil means no recursive deletes.

`always' means delete recursively without asking.  This is DANGEROUS!

`top' means ask for each directory at top level, but delete its subdirectories
without asking.

Anything else means ask for each directory.





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