changeset 56469:5804f0d30b6e

(Dired Updating): `k' only deletes inserted subdirectories from the Dired buffer if a prefix argument was given.
author Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@auburn.edu>
date Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:29:40 +0000
parents fc5aa4dbf48e
children 79a49dbad8e6
files man/dired.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+]
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--- 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