eirik@crl.labs.tek.com (Eirik Fuller) (09/01/89)
The following pertains to GNU emacs 18.54. I just started using dired semi-seriously, and was shocked to find a hard-coded yes-or-no-p in dired-do-deletions. I might as well use rm in a shell window, for all that extra typing. I realize that this is not a bug; the manual documents this behavior. I guess I even agree that this is reasonable behavior for those who don't trust their own typing. What surprises me is that there haven't been enough users who do trust their typing to justify a variable setting to bypass this hand holding. Is there some other emacs mode that wizards use to delete files? Or do wizards never create unnecessary files? I am not objecting to the fact that deletion doesn't happen right away. I like that idea. I'm only objecting to the extra typing beyond the 'x' command. Is there something I missed in the documentation or lisp code that provides a convenient way of deleting files? Or will I have to resort to patching the lisp?