Function: dired-do-delete

dired-do-delete is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in dired.el.gz.

Signature

(dired-do-delete &optional ARG)

Documentation

Delete all marked (or next ARG) files.

dired-recursive-deletes controls whether deletion of non-empty directories is allowed.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 26.1.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/dired.el.gz
(defun dired-do-delete (&optional arg)
  "Delete all marked (or next ARG) files.
`dired-recursive-deletes' controls whether deletion of
non-empty directories is allowed."
  ;; This is more consistent with the file marking feature than
  ;; dired-do-flagged-delete.
  (interactive "P")
  (let (markers)
    (dired-internal-do-deletions
     (nreverse
      ;; this may move point if ARG is an integer
      (dired-map-over-marks (cons (dired-get-filename)
                                  (let ((m (point-marker)))
                                    (push m markers)
                                    m))
                            arg))
     arg t)
    (dolist (m markers) (set-marker m nil))))