# HG changeset patch # User Luc Teirlinck # Date 1090160980 0 # Node ID 5804f0d30b6ebf8baf4c309888421f7e42d6dc70 # Parent fc5aa4dbf48e4c9e0f3a2637bfc5439a82e83dbf (Dired Updating): `k' only deletes inserted subdirectories from the Dired buffer if a prefix argument was given. diff -r fc5aa4dbf48e -r 5804f0d30b6e man/dired.texi --- a/man/dired.texi Sun Jul 18 14:03:01 2004 +0000 +++ b/man/dired.texi Sun Jul 18 14:29:40 2004 +0000 @@ -1030,10 +1030,11 @@ 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. + If you use @kbd{k} with a numeric prefix argument to kill the line +for a file that is a directory, which you have inserted in the Dired +buffer as a subdirectory, then this deletes that subdirectory from the +buffer as well. 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