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bug#38729: 26.1; dired-flag-file-deletion should just skip over .. and .
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Trent W. Buck |
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bug#38729: 26.1; dired-flag-file-deletion should just skip over .. and . |
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Tue, 24 Dec 2019 18:24:54 +1100 |
When you do this:
emacs -Q -nw .
C-n # until you reach the ".." line
d # d runs the command dired-flag-file-deletion
x # x runs the command dired-do-flagged-delete
Then you get
Cannot operate on ‘.’ or ‘..’
Which is entirely reasonable and obvious.
What just happened to me was I had sorted a directory by time,
scrolled past the first page of recent files, then did
C-u 100000 d x
to delete all the remaining files.
And of course I got
Cannot operate on ‘.’ or ‘..’
So then I had to find . and/or .. in the list and use u (dired-unmark)
before I could do x (dired-do-flagged-delete).
This was a minor annoyance.
Can you just make d (dired-do-flagged-delete) skip over the . and
.. lines, since you can never delete them?
Note that m (dired-mark) should remain as-is, since e.g. "m ! du -s RET"
works fine on . and .. special lines.
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