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authorLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2020-08-05 11:27:54 +0200
committerLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2020-08-05 11:27:54 +0200
commit3f358fc172c50868321b0ef246adb66a7ea795c9 (patch)
treea82e95399ae1de53bd469d1bd9a530493d3217b9
parentc72b734c917f635fac09f691e91d3391b00b96f2 (diff)
downloademacs-3f358fc172c50868321b0ef246adb66a7ea795c9.tar.gz
Mention undo in the doc string of dired-do-kill-lines
* lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-do-kill-lines): Mention that this can be undone (bug#42707).
-rw-r--r--lisp/dired-aux.el6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el
index efb214088d8..806a3955e4d 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-aux.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el
@@ -952,13 +952,17 @@ With a prefix argument, kill that many lines starting with the current line.
"Kill all marked lines (not the files).
With a prefix argument, kill that many lines starting with the current line.
\(A negative argument kills backward.)
+
If you use this command with a 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 it deletes that subdirectory
from the buffer as well.
+
To kill an entire subdirectory \(without killing its line in the
parent directory), go to its directory header line and use this
-command with a prefix argument (the value does not matter)."
+command with a prefix argument (the value does not matter).
+
+To undo the killing, the undo command can be used as normally."
;; Returns count of killed lines. FMT="" suppresses message.
(interactive "P")
(if arg