GNU bug report logs - #27940
Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 00:38:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #46 received at 27940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: Robert Marshall <robert.marshall <at> codethink.co.uk>
Cc: 27940 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#27940: Recursively delete dir34? (yes, no, all, quit)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 14:54:32 +0900 (JST)


On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Robert Marshall wrote:

> Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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)
>
> Hi
>
> With this change deleting an empty directory now asks for confirmation
> whereas it didn't before and answering no to the recursively delete
> question still deletes the directory, which seems a bit counter
> intuitive?
>
> Robert
Thank you very much.
I believe commit da4438e14f1c55808937872b6d651a807404daa2
(dired-delete-file:  Dont't ask for empty dirs)
has fixed it.
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