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Re: `k' in Dired with inserted subdirectories.


From: Luc Teirlinck
Subject: Re: `k' in Dired with inserted subdirectories.
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:19:19 -0500 (CDT)

I believe that the following patch to man/dired.texi is better than the
original:

===File ~/dired.texi-diff-2=================================
*** dired.texi  14 Jun 2004 14:51:51 -0500      1.29
--- dired.texi  13 Jul 2004 15:01:18 -0500      
***************
*** 1030,1039 ****
  files, or on the marked files if any; but it does not operate on the
  current file as a last resort.
  
!   If you kill the line for a file that is a directory, the directory's
! contents are also deleted from the buffer.  Typing @kbd{C-u k} on the
! header line for a subdirectory is another way to delete a subdirectory
! from the Dired buffer.
  
    The @kbd{g} command brings back any individual lines that you have
  killed in this way, but not subdirectories---you must use @kbd{i} to
--- 1030,1040 ----
  files, or on the marked files if any; but it does not operate on the
  current file as a last resort.
  
!   If you kill the line for a file that is a directory using @kbd{k}
! with a numeric prefix argument, the directory's contents are also
! deleted from the buffer.  Typing @kbd{C-u k} on the header line for a
! subdirectory is another way to delete a subdirectory from the Dired
! buffer.
  
    The @kbd{g} command brings back any individual lines that you have
  killed in this way, but not subdirectories---you must use @kbd{i} to
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