Delete marked files from dired

[notbob]

I've gotta lotta files to delete before rsyncing to a thumb drive. I
know how to mark all files in a dir (* s) when in dired mode, but do not know how to
delete all those marked files. Anybody? ;)

nb

[Marco Wahl]

*c*Dx

This is change the * marks to D marks (D for deletion). Then execute
(x).


Ciao

[notbob]

On 2017-06-02, Marco Wahl <marcow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> *c*Dx
>
> This is change the * marks to D marks (D for deletion). Then execute
> (x).

Works like a champ! Thank you, so much, Marco. ;)

nb

[notbob]

On 2017-06-02, notbob <not...@nothome.com> wrote:
> On 2017-06-02, Marco Wahl <marcow...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> *c*Dx

This still works, perfectly, but now, how do I "force" delete, so I
don't hafta answer y/n fer all recursive (filled) directories? ;)

nb

[notbob]

I found this:

"You can delete empty directories just like other files, but normally
Dired cannot delete directories that are nonempty. If the variable
dired-recursive-deletes is non-nil, then Dired can delete nonempty
directories including all their contents. That can be somewhat risky."

So, how do I set the above named variable or, better yet, how do I
invoke it w/o changing my emacs config file? I've got some changes in
my ~/.emacs file, but I don't really understand 'em all. They were
suggestions by others, much like this Q. ;)

nb --not the sharpest knife in the emacs drawer

[Ralf Fassel]

* notbob <not...@nothome.com>
| [...] If the variable dired-recursive-deletes is non-nil, then Dired

| can delete nonempty directories including all their contents. That can
| be somewhat risky."
>
| So, how do I set the above named variable or, better yet, how do I
| invoke it w/o changing my emacs config file?

M-x customize-variable RET dired-recursive-deletes RET

But make sure you really really really want to delete non-empty
directories (especially $HOME :-) without confirmation.

HTH
R'

[notbob]

On 2017-06-15, Ralf Fassel <ral...@gmx.de> wrote:

> M-x customize-variable RET dired-recursive-deletes RET

The first part of yer solution works, but not the 2nd part. I get a
response of "[No match]". Backing up a bit and letting emacs do an
auto-completion only yields:

-----

Possible completions are:
dired-kept-versions
dired-listing-switches

-----

I use slrn fer news, but emacs is my general editor. This ona Slackware
14.1 box using emacs 24.3.1. ;)

nb

[notbob]

OK, my bad. Turns out you gotta be IN dired mode fer the variable to
show up. I used another xterm to put me in an non-dired mode of emacs
and that does NOT work. Now all I gotta do is learn how the
"customize" screen works. Thank you. ;)

nb

[Ralf Fassel]

* notbob <not...@nothome.com>

| OK, my bad. Turns out you gotta be IN dired mode fer the variable to
| show up. I used another xterm to put me in an non-dired mode of emacs
| and that does NOT work.

Might be that the variable is not known to emacs until dired-mode is
actually loaded.

| Now all I gotta do is learn how the "customize" screen works.

Might be easier to just put

(setq dired-recursive-deletes 'always)

in your .emacs (maybe accompanied by a comment indicating what this
does), but I thought the 'GUI'-approach might be the way to go these
days... :-)

HTH
R'

[notbob]

On 2017-06-19, Ralf Fassel <ral...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Might be easier to just put
>
> (setq dired-recursive-deletes 'always)

Not sure if it is actually easier, but at least it works! Thank you,
Ralf.

Apparently, "nil" is not acceptable. I had "t" in there, before. With
"'always", it always seems to work. DUH!

Thank you to all you emacs fans. I asked this question a few yrs ago
and no one answered. Looks like we have some new blood. ;)

nb

[Ralf Fassel]

* notbob <not...@nothome.com>

| On 2017-06-19, Ralf Fassel <ral...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
| > Might be easier to just put
| >
| > (setq dired-recursive-deletes 'always)
>
| Not sure if it is actually easier, but at least it works! Thank you,
| Ralf.

Da nich für... ;-)

| Thank you to all you emacs fans. I asked this question a few yrs ago
| and no one answered.

Must have missed your message then :-)))

| Looks like we have some new blood. ;)

Thanks for the flowers (my contributions to fortran.el date some time back :-)

R'