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#44556
27.1; Ido deletes file without configuration with C-x C-v C-k
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Reported by: Christopher Sean Morrison <brlcad <at> mac.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:05:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 27.1
Fixed in version 29.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #37 received at 44556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
* Christopher Sean Morrison via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> [2020-12-09 23:05]:
> I don’t know the inner workings of Ido to dig deeper on why it is
> not prompting for confirmation as that's the crux of this report.
> If I ctrl-k, file is deleted silently without confirmation.
Do you have variable delete-by-moving-to-trash as T ? Then the file
may be still in your trash to be recovered. It looks like C-k in ido
would ask you to delete the file but if the variable is set, the file
would go silently to Trash.
Anyway I hope that function is completely removed by developers as it
is close to C-j to expand the completion.
Use Ivy for completion or helm.
I found that standard Emacs completion is less obtrusive and equally
efficient. I use Ivy or helm when I need relevance search to match
words apart form each other.
Otherwise using joker *artial-file-name in built-in completion is just
quick.
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