Re: deleting directories.

[Livin Stephen Sharma]

This worked..
.. but I'm unfamiliar with dired, so I'll tread carefully with this  
for a while! J

 Thanks, Ed


On 18-Apr-07, at 09:33 , B. T. Raven wrote:

> Livin Stephen Sharma wrote:
> > How can I delete a directory thru emacs
> >  (equivalent of "M-x delete-file")
> > regards
> >  livin.stephen
> > [This is GNU Emacs 22.0.97.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon  
> > Version 1.6.0)]
>
>
> C-x d [parent directory of the one you want to delete]
> S-< or S-> to move point to line where name of directory to delete  
> is found
> D
> [If there are files in the directory you try to delete and if dired- 
> recursive-delete is nil, then you will get an error. ]
> Safer than recursive deletion is deletion of the files in the  
> directory before removal of the directory:
>
> navigate to directory in dired with > or < or ^ and then type
> m
> d
> [Confirm]
> ^
> D
> X
> [Confirm]
>
> All these single keystroke commands can also be invoked from the  
> menubar in a dired buffer. Manybe you can also run rm from a shell  
> but I just froze emacs up by trying M-! deltree junkdir. I don't  
> quite understand why.
>
> Ed
>
>
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