From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 08:58:27 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Clarify the documentation of 'dired-recursive-deletes'
X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.1.90~377
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5b6f8b54d1d1f941a64007317c029f6c9165bf87;p=emacs.git

Clarify the documentation of 'dired-recursive-deletes'

* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Dired Deletion): Clarify text regarding
recursive deletion of non-empty directories.  (Bug#31529)
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/dired.texi b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
index 82882ab1b19..fba9d31406e 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/dired.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/dired.texi
@@ -238,19 +238,21 @@ the buffer, and no files actually deleted.
 @cindex recursive deletion
 @vindex dired-recursive-deletes
   You can delete empty directories just like other files, but normally
-Dired cannot delete directories that are nonempty.  If the variable
-@code{dired-recursive-deletes} is non-@code{nil}, then Dired can
-delete nonempty directories including all their contents.  That can be
-somewhat risky.  If the value of the variable is @code{always}, Dired
-will delete nonempty directories recursively, which is even more
-risky.  Even if you have set @code{dired-recursive-deletes} to
-@code{nil}, you might want sometimes to delete recursively directories
-without being asked for confirmation for all of them.  This is handy
-when you have marked many directories for deletion and you are very
-sure that all of them can safely be deleted.  For every nonempty
-directory you are asked for confirmation; if you answer @code{all},
-then all the remaining directories will be deleted without more
-questions.
+Dired cannot delete directories that are nonempty.  However, if the
+variable @code{dired-recursive-deletes} is non-@code{nil}, then Dired
+is allowed to delete nonempty directories including all their
+contents.  That can be somewhat risky.  If the value of the variable
+is @code{always}, Dired will delete nonempty directories recursively,
+which is even more risky.
+
+Even if you have set @code{dired-recursive-deletes} to @code{nil}, you
+might want sometimes to delete directories recursively without being
+asked for confirmation for all of them.  For example, you may want
+that when you have marked many directories for deletion and you are
+very sure that all of them can safely be deleted.  For every nonempty
+directory you are asked for confirmation to delete, if you answer
+@code{all}, then all the remaining directories will be deleted without
+any further questions.
 
 @vindex delete-by-moving-to-trash@r{, and Dired}
   If you change the variable @code{delete-by-moving-to-trash} to