Subject: bug#27940: closed (Re: bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit))

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 04:53:02 +0000

Your bug report

#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)
From: Tino Calancha <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:52:13 +0900
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Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> > This warrants a NEWS entry, I think.  I also wonder whether we should
>> > describe this in the user manual, under "Dired Deletion".
>> Done.
>
> Thanks, LGTM.
Added feature into master branch as commit
cbea38e5c4af5386192fb9a48ef4fca5080d6561
(dired-do-delete: Allow to delete dirs recursively without prompts)

Subject: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 07:26:24 +0800
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dired-do-flagged-delete and me interaction:
Recursively delete dcepc? (yes or no) yes
Recursively delete emmpc? (yes or no) yes
Recursively delete zpspc? (yes or no) yes
Recursively delete dgcpc? (yes or no) yes

Wouldn't it be nice if there was instead:
Recursively delete dgcpc? (yes, no, all, quit)

Yes, if before we started we set the variables we needn't be asked all
those questions.

But now *midway* through the list, we decide we would like no more
question, there should be a way, without needing to quit and start over,
even if doing that isn't so bad.