Re: dired should clear marks after most operations, or something

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael J Downes <epsmjd@ams.org>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 12 Apr 2001 13:57:04 -0400
> 
> > How about an optional feature whereby Emacs will ask for confirmation and 
> > show the list of affected files, just like it does with deletion?
> 
> You mean for the dired ! command? It does that confirmation for me now
> (20.7), before prompting for the command to use.

Then how come the user didn't pay attention to the long list of files
he was about to "rm -rf"?