On May 22, 4:32 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > the context is this: In emacs directory manager (aka dired), when you > > call dired-do-delete on a directory, emacs prompts, this way: > > “Recursive delete of xx? (y or n)” > > But in order to make your point (such as it is), you are ignoring the > fact that there are other uses of the term 'recurse' or 'recursive', > and consistency and clarity are important. I don't see emacs offering > me a chance to do a non-recursive delete; the only issue here seems to > be that it's explicit that it is going to destroy an entire branch of > the directory tree. If this is such a problem, grab the emacs sources > and change that string - it probably occurs in exactly one place in > the code. Voila! You now have The One True Perfect Emacs, the ultimate > text editor, because it no longer tells you that it's working > recursively. > > *removes tongue from cheek after saying that last sentence* > > Chris Angelico
why don't you file a bug report? In GNU Emacs 23.2, it's under the Help menu. I suppose it's the same in other emacs distro. Xah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
